It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.
In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.
We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.
Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.
The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.
Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.
There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.
I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.
You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.
I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.
At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.
