Social Justice

“The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.”
--Friedrich August von Hayek

Personified Nation

“The nation, like the State, is a personified concept. The nation has no life of its own apart from the individual, and is therefore not an end in itself. All life is individual life, in which alone the ultimate meaning is to be found.”
--Carl Jung

Granting State Power

“Before granting any new power or prerogative to the State, first imagine that power wielded by the politician you hate most, because one day it will be.”
--Warren Meyer

Good Laws

“The best way to educate a son on ethical conduct is to make him a citizen of a state with good laws.”
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Bureaucratic Control

“As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.”
--Adam Smith

Society's Blessing

“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
--Thomas Paine

Two Vices

“The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.”
--Titus Livius (Livy)

Conscience is Felt

“Conscience is a felt state, it is an intuitive form of knowledge about the rightness or wrongness of an action.”
--Claire Fox

State Best Ordered

“That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.”
--Pittacus

Dwarf Men

“A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”
--John Stuart Mill

Natural State

“Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.“
--Aung San Suu Kyi

Civil Disobedience

“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.”
--Mahatma Gandhi

A Power Like This

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”
--Alexander Graham Bell

The Stress State

“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.”
--Natalie Goldberg

Teaching Goals

“My goal in teaching is to get back that childlike state of wonder and optimism, and let one rediscover that great potential within us all.”
--Gary Hoover

The State of Defeat

“Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.”
--Bruce Lee

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Alter the Future

“Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is the state of mind of people who want to alter the future.”
--Guy Kawasaki