Famous quotes containing the words increase and/or state:
“And because of the increase of lawlessness, the love of many will grow cold.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 24:12.
“Romance reading and writing might be seen ... as a collectively elaborated female ritual through which women explore the consequences of their common social condition as the appendages of men and attempt to imagine a more perfect state where all the needs they so intensely feel and accept as given would be adequately addressed.”
—Janice A. Radway (b. 1949)