Famous quotes containing the words state, defence and/or order:
“When I think of a merry, happy, free young girland look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed towhich you cant deny is the penalty of marriage.”
—Victoria (18191901)
“Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)