Quotes of: Welfare-state Keyword

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

Vaclav Klaus

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

Walt Disney Company

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

Walton Goggins

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

William Kirby

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

William Thomas Green Morton

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.

John Bruton

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.

Maria Menounos

There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.

Marco Rubio

We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.

Nan Hayworth

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

Rick Perry

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war.

Noam Chomsky

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men ut...

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Vol 3: A Miscellany

Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rat...

The Blind Giant

It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger number of Africans ...

Black Rednecks & White Liberals

The government system we have now is set up just like that of Rome and is changing into a system I call Corpocracism (Babylon, United States). Corpocracism is a word derived from some entities of feudalism, democracy, capitalism, classism, and corpor...

JerUSAlem and the Blood of Jesus

All Renaissance drama, especially the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare, is profoundly concerned with shifting power relations within society. The individual was a new force in relation to the state. The threat of rebellion, of the overturning of esta...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into the all-consuming all-equalizing chaos, that ascetic-libertine state; or should he take his stand on the "Critical-Subjective,"...

The Magic Mountain

The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather [...] it responds with 'benign neglect' [....] The members of ethnic and national groups are protected ...

Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient adjectival form. A citi...

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity attainable? . Let us reflect that it is inhabited by a thousand millions of people. That these profess probably a...

Notes on the State of Virginia