Quotes of: Totalitarian-state Keyword

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client state...

Martin Jacques

The Zionists accepted the partition plan. The AHC and the Arab states rejected any proposal to share the land and vowed to drown the fledging Jewish state in rivers of blood.

A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred

Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

Democracy in America

Every GI signs a blank check, payable to the United States, drawn in an amount up to and including his life.

Hamfist Over the Trail: The Air Combat Adventures of Hamilton Hamfist Hancock

Relaxation is… a state between waking and sleeping, where the body is completely still and the mind is allowed to flow freely from one thought to another, or alternately, a state in which the mind becomes inadvertently calm.

Baby Steps to Meditation

Concentration is… a relaxed mental state, where the stream of consciousness flows in a single direction, either focusing on a phrase or mental picture, or alternately, a state in which the mind is alert and aware.

Baby Steps to Meditation

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of stat...

Donald Bren

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us.. the worst part is we can't say who is who

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

You are significantly more likely to die in a car accident, especially if you fail to wear a seat belt, than to be attacked by ISIS. Wear your seat belt

ISIS: The State of Terror

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

Lords and Ladies

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.

The Peripheral Mind: Philosophy of Mind and the Peripheral Nervous System

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

The True Meaning of Smekday

The last time I saw love was in my imagination while reading a book on Thomas Jefferson. Isn’t the Constitution of the United States so romantic?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Immobilization: A state, however mild or serious, in which you are not functioning at the level that you would like to. If feelings lead to such a state, you need to look no further for a reason to get rid of them.

Your Erroneous Zones

The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. I...

Indra Nooyi

Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.

Maria Cantwell

If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.

Paul Broun