State Of Exception Quotes

#1. Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

Gunter Grass

#2. I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

Tony Judt

#3. Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

Giorgio Agamben

#4. I need good grades because I want to go on to do A-Levels. I'm just not sure yet about whether I will go to university, because I really want to see what happens with the acting.

Georgia Groome

#5. State companies winning deals because of government-to- government interaction has become a rule rather than an exception. This will increase competition for multinational companies in acquiring oil and gas assets.

Arjuna Mahendran

#6. I'm scared." It was something I'd never said out loud. "I'm scared he'll let me down ... or that he won't want me. And I figure maybe it's easier if I just don't give him the chance.

Kody Keplinger

#7. Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Francesco Petrarca

#8. The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in whi ch we live is not the exception but the rule.

Anonymous

#9. One of the essential characteristics of the state of exception-the provisional abolition of the distinction among legislative, executive, and judicial powers-here shows its tendency to become a lasting practice of government.

Giorgio Agamben

#10. I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.

Werner Herzog

#11. Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Philip Sidney

#12. The Buddha shared his teachings so that everyone, without exception, could reach the same supreme state of liberation that he had attained through practice and effort.

Shinjo Ito

#13. 'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.

Mike Rowe

#14. In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.

Stephen LaBerge

#15. All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

Simone De Beauvoir

#16. The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution. ... On natural principles, a treaty, which should manifestly betray or sacrifice primary interests of the state, would be null.

Alexander Hamilton

#17. The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

Giorgio Agamben

#18. It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.

Max Heindel