Pure State

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or state:

“God cannot be seen: he is too bright for sight; nor grasped: he is too pure for touch; nor measured: for he is beyond all sense, infinite, measureless, his dimension known to himself alone.”
—Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)

“A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)