State Action Doctrine

Famous quotes containing the words state, action and/or doctrine:

“The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man. On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably dying.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

“Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.”
—Jerry Alan Fodor (b. 1935)