Famous quotes containing the words state and/or budgets:
“Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.”
—Paddy Ashdown (b. 1941)
“Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)