Emotional Feeling State

Famous quotes containing the words emotional, feeling and/or state:

“Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.”
—Edna O’Brien (b. c. 1932)

“A feeling of sadness and longing
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

“Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)