"Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments."
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"I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian."
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"The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years."
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"States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power"
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"State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome."
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"I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression."
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"You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence."
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"Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy."
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"The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose."
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"If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice."
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"While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement.""
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"North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society."
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"Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so richand varied in its productions, and at the same time so habitable by the European, as this is?"
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"The public library system of the United States is worth preserving."
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"Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States."
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"The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner."
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"In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country."
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"Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no."
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"Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness."
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"There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all"
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