Pure State

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or state:

“There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)