Quotes About Government

For all her faults, she was no despot.

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

But during the nineteenth century, Europe was reconfigured into clearly defined states ruled by a central government.

In any traditional empire, the purpose of government was not to guide or provide services for the population but to tax them. It did not usually attempt to interfere with the social customs or religious beliefs of its subjects. Rather, a government was set up to take whatever it could from its peasants and prevent other aristocrats from getting their surplus, so warfare- to conquer, expand, or maintain the tax base- was essential to these states.

men and women were naturally prone to lie, steal, and murder, and these evil impulses could be forcibly held in check only by a strong, authoritative government.

An attack on SeaWorld might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.

Everything Jacen did to grab power was within the law. There's law, and there's justice, and sometimes they're not the same thing.

I don't mind being shot at. It's having a government that lies to me that I hate.

When you can no longer know what your nation or your government stands for, or even where it is, you need a set of beliefs you can carry with you and cling to. You need a core in your heart that will never change.

Politics were the ultimate frustration.

She spent the next hour dividing her time between the phone and the computer; scaring the ever-loving shit out of herself while waiting on hold by investiGoogling type 2 diabetes on her laptop. She found one nut who claimed diabetes was a governmental plot to extract billions of dollars from the unsuspecting public in order to wage the war for oil.

Anyone who does not want communism-and none of us do-should take socialism seriously.

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The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

What is crucial in the true state is not the fact that every citizen has the chance to devote himself to the universal interest in the shape of a particular class, but the capacity of the universal class to be really universal, i.e. to be the class of every citizen.

representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament

Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.

El gobierno del Estado moderno no es más que una junta que administra los negocios comunes de toda la clase burguesa (...) para no dejar subsistir otro vinculo entre los hombres que el frío interés, el cruel 'pago al contado' (...) Ha hecho de la dignidad personal un simple valor de intercambio (...) ha establecido una explotación abierta, descarada, directa y brutal.

Government hears only its own voice … It knows it hears only its own voice and yet it deceives itself that it hears the people's voice.

Democracy is the road to Socialism.

But the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.

The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

The necessary consequence of this was political centralization. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments and systems of taxation, became lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class interest, one frontier, and one customs tariff.