Subtle State

Famous quotes containing the words subtle and/or state:

“Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly
And left me cloaked as with a gauze of ther;
As with sweet leaves; as with subtle clearness.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)