#state

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#friends #fundamentalists #includes #states #united

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#bad #build #company #dayton #democratic

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#ambassador #bigger #bring #chess #events

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. ↗

— Aristotle

#anxious #certain #character #citizens #disposition

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#businesses #executives #highly #many #paid

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. ↗

— Felix Adler

#church #continue #long #maintain #purity

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. ↗

— Felix Adler

#creed #dogma #every #experience #inception

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind. ↗

— Phillip Adams

#internet #mind #pathological #provides #states

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#even #future #knowing #modern #our

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#believe #bias #comments #decisions #dr