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

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. – Oscar Wilde

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. – Oscar Wilde

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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it — 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

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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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State

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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State

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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State

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The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. – Milton Glaser

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