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Gujarat is a pro-business state, where civil society organisations are comfortable with working to make sure that business does not suffer. Large parts of the rest of India, for better or worse, are very different.
- Abhijit Banerjee
When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.
- Shane Claiborne
When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God. After all, what is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life—especially one's politics?
- Shane Claiborne
There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.
- George W. Bush
I think it might honestly be time for the Sunshine State to officially change its motto to the Worst State.
- John Oliver
She thought that relaxation was attractive only in those for whom it was an unnatural state; then even limpness acquired purpose.
- Ayn Rand
Did it ever occur to you that I have a life to live - in my spare time? The Soviet State recognizes no life but that of a social class.
- Ayn Rand
I often think about that stretch of time spent sitting helplessly at the state dinner in Chile, contemplating the knife's edge between perceived success and potential catastrophe
- Barack Obama
so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again.
- Joseph Heller
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
- Joseph Brodsky
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
- William Law