The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas Sowell

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. Wells

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
Marshall McLuhan

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Emma Goldman

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Franz Kafka

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
Franz Kafka

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Martha Washington

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Michel de Montaigne

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Carl Rogers

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.
Louis Farrakhan

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.
Louis Farrakhan

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
George MacDonald

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
Dan Quayle

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Dan Quayle

All oppression creates a state of war.
Simone de Beauvoir