Absolute State

Famous quotes containing the words absolute and/or state:

“But their determination to banish fools foundered
ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.”
—Basil Bunting (1900–1985)

“Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wife’s nightgown. He asked her if she knew the figure he was drawing. “Yes,” she answered, “the figure of a fool.””
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)