Pure State

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or state:

“Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,—if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all the rest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)