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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make wha

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. – Oscar Wilde

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Romance
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. – Oscar Wilde

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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the States ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners. – Jean Dubuffet

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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. Its become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. – E. L. Doctorow

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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else. – Simone Weil

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State

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is. – G. W. F. Hegel

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The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. – John Keats

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The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. – St. Gregory The Great

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If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. – Carl Sagan

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What could become a danger to world peace is Irans nuclear program and the countrys open threat to annihilate Israel. – Sigmar Gabriel

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