Famous quotes containing the words state and/or line:
“A functioning police state needs no police.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“The man of business ... goes on Sunday to the church with the regularity of the village blacksmith, there to renounce and abjure before his God the line of conduct which he intends to pursue with all his might during the following week.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)