Pure State

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or state:

“The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.”
—Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)

“The State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)