Quotes About Government

Wiener pox," said Danny gravely, tapping his snout. "Kills thousands every year. The government hushes it up.

Think of this: Hundreds of people today are doing things that not a single one of the them would have dared to do at the beginning of the Seventies. We are now living in a truly new and different situation. This is not because the government has become more tolerant; it simply had to get used to the new situation. It has had to yield to continuing pressure from below, which means pressure from all those apparently suicidal or exhibitionistic civic acts.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

China's ruling party, as firmly in control of the government as ever, attracts foreign companies and enormous direct investment by guaranteeing the stability of a police state and by supplying a docile workforce that labors with minimum rights, commonly for extended hours under severe discipline, and is housed in substandard conditions.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

Visuomenei, jei j? sudaryt? pilnavert?s, m?stan?ios b?tyb?s, gerai suprantan?ios viena kit? ir nekonkuruojan?ios taip beprasmiškai, nereik?t? nei vyriausyb?s, nei ?statym?, nei vadov?.

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.

There's no reason why a society consisting of rational beings capable of empathizing with each other, complete and having no natural reason to compete, should have a government, laws, or leaders.

Better sixty years of tyranny than a single day of civil strife.

as a people and a Nation we have not been properly appreciative of intellectual achievement. This awareness and appreciation is not something the Government can legislate into being. We must build it into our national consciousness through our educational system, and until we do, science and all other forms of intellectual activity will lack the firm foundation they require.

When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Politics is the executive expression of human immaturity.

Powerful egomaniacs and psychopaths have, for centuries wanted a world government.

Temporary measures (as introduced by governments) are never temporary; they invariably become permanent.

Bearing all this in mind, I prepared my own triple phrased slogan. Three words and three phrases: Distrust the government Avoid mass media Fight the lies

Distrust the government Avoid mass media Fight the lies

There will be one world, one flag, one anthem, one army, one government and one leader.

Camus (Albert) 'The welfare and safety of the people is always the alibi of the tyrant.

we were all told that we had to stop using fossil fuels and start living on sunshine and wind. Since neither of these provides enough electricity to give everyone a lit light bulb (and weren't ever likely to do so) governments started chopping down trees, chopping them up, calling the result biomass, burning it and labelling it 'sustainable'. Anyone objecting to what was clearly the beginning of a huge scam was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist and publicly shamed

The worst tyrannies were the ones where a government required its own logic on every embedded node.

the Social Security Administration has also kept a record.

Again, wars do not really end until the conditions that started them--a bellicose government, an aggressive leader, a national policy of brinksmanship--are eliminated. Otherwise, there remains a bellum interruptum , much like the so-called Peace of Nicias, when Athens and Sparta agreed to a time-out in 421 B.C., before going at each other with renewed and deadly fury in 415 B.C.