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«Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.»
Author: Frederic Bastiat | Keywords: expense, state, The State
«If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.»
«Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking;»
«Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.»
«Fears are nothing more than a state of mind»
«Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Government | Keywords: government, intolerable, state, worst
«God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.»
«Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | About: Faith | Keywords: grasp, grasps, state
«All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free»
«Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.»