#state

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#common #consensus #earth #expression #feminine

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#beyond #every #fact #founding #government

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#learning #need #power #same #scholars

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#better off #born #came #country #despised

California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I'm eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I'm a Cali girl through and through. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#california #day #eating #girl #groovy

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#being #established #ever #few #ideas

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#especially #independent #independent movies #money #movies

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#about #almost #become #consulting #corporations

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#anything #does #duties #longer #modern