#state

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#illness #mental #mental illness #national #paranoid

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace. ↗

— Warren R. Austin

#capitol #craftsmanship #peace #shall #statesmanship

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it. ↗

— Henry A. Wise

#authority #civil #civil liberty #conflict #defend

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#common #deal #either #loyalty #nevertheless

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#am #class #communism #control #disarmament

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#afterlife #any #enforce #fails #firmly

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#expense #forget #live #state #wants

All oppression creates a state of war. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#oppression #state #war

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#because #biggest #design #dominates #english

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know? ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #draw #encounters #generalization #half