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States Quotes - Page 5

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Aug 26, 2011

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

Leon Trotsky (2012). “My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography”, p.579, Courier Corporation

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

Benito Mussolini (1935). “Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions”

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

"The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered". Book by George Soros, 1998.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

"Q&A: In Zadie Smith’s ‘NW,’ Some Harsh Truths About Friendship". Interview with Beth Garbitelli, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2012.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”