Quotes About Governance

no propugnamos un gobierno más grande, sino sólo mejor gobernanza.

How reason is just another weapon of control.

If hell did exist, which Jackson was sure it did, it would be governed by a committee of fifteen-year-old Italian boys on bikes.

the Germans have got to be stopped. They think they're entitled to rule the world!" Da said: "We're British. Our empire holds sway over more than four hundred million people. Hardly any of them are entitled to vote. They have no control over their own countries. Ask the average British man why, and he'll say it's our destiny to govern inferior peoples.

El anarquismo es la creencia de que nadie está legitimado para gobernar. Todas las filosofías políticas, desde el derecho divino de los reyes hasta el contrato social de Rousseau, intentan justificar la autoridad. Los anarquistas creen que todas esas teorías fallan, y que por tanto ninguna forma de autoridad es legítima.

John Locke and other philosophers said a government's authority could come only from the consent of the people.

Thousands of working-class men and peasants would be killed on both sides, and nothing would be achieved. It proved, to Grigori and everyone he knew, that the Russian nobility were too stupid to govern. Even

El anarquismo es la creencia de que nadie está legitimado para gobernar.

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.

Politics is activity in relation to power

Power should be a check on power.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Lists are a form of power.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

You can't keep changing the rules based upon who holds political power.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.