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Quotes About Authority

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
People, your Government has returned to you!
~ Vaclav Havel
What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either
~ Shirin Ebadi
India knows that the subject of Land is not with the Central Government and the Centre does not require lands. All rights relating to land are with the states.
~ Narendra Modi
On one side the government, the other side the mob.
~ Neil Young
Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary to what the government had planned to do.
~ Nelson Mandela
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
~ Noam Chomsky
Governments don't control people like they used to.
~ Noam Chomsky
I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
~ P. Chidambaram
The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
~ P. Chidambaram
No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.
~ P. D. James
The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Government was instituted by God to bring His laws to people and to carry out His will and purposes.
~ Pat Robertson
When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens.
~ Pat Robertson
Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.
~ Paul Ryan
It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.
~ Peter McWilliams
The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.
~ Peter McWilliams
The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.
~ Rafael Cruz