Official State Soil

Famous quotes containing the words official, state and/or soil:

    “All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    “I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “A man’s destination is not his destiny,
    Every country is home to one man
    And exile to another. Where a man dies bravely
    At one with his destiny, that soil is his.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)