#state

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#because #eaten #guilt #irrespective #knowledge

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#actions #censored #change #character #dangerous

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#be happy #better #case #general #happy

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#arab world #challenging #compared #dynamic #forget

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#achieved #against #alone #corporation #could

In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#affirmed #behalf #europe #first #foundations

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody. ↗

— Alain Juppe

#confrontation #everybody #harmful #states #such

I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too. ↗

— Donald Judd

#does #else #everybody #everything #first

Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper. ↗

— Donald Judd

#hopper #like #more #states #stuart

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim. ↗

— Donald Judd

#anybody #anyone #claim #culture #grand