Quotes About Government

Where the currency depreciation is a result of government inflation carried out by the issue of notes, it is possible to avert its disastrous effect on economic calculation by conducting all bookkeeping in a stable money instead. But so far as the depreciation is a depreciation of gold, the world money, there is no such easy way out.

The attempt to restrain prices within limits has to be given up. A government that sets out to abolish market prices is inevitably driven towards the abolition of private property.

The agents of etatism have certainly not been lacking in zeal and energy. But, for all this, economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen.

It is not easy to determine whether there are any who still adhere in good faith to the doctrine that traces back the depreciation of money to the activity of speculators. The doctrine is an indispensable instrument of the lowest form of demagogy; it is the resource of governments in search of a scapegoat. There are scarcely any independent writers nowadays who defend it; those who support it are paid to do so.

Stable government requires the free consent of those ruled. Tyranny, even the tyranny of benevolent despots, cannot bring lasting peace and prosperity. There

I have pointed out that the worst thing that can happen to a socialist is to have his country ruled by socialists who are not his friends.

Originally, i.e., before Karl Marx, the term "right" meant the supporters of representative government and civil liberties, as opposed to the "left" who favored royal absolutism and the absence of civil rights.

The alternative to the rule of law is the rule of despots.

The socialistic State owns all material factors of production and thus directs it.

The "Keynesian revolution" took place long before Keynes approved of it and fabricated a pseudo-scientific justification for it. What he really did was to write an apology for the prevailing policies of governments.

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism.

Lessing has said that Collectivism is nothing less than 'the cloak of tyranny'.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.

The worst thing that can happen to a socialist is to have his country ruled by socialists who are not his friends.

As a rule, capitalism is blamed for the undesired effects of a policy directed at its elimination. The man who sips his morning coffee does not say, "Capitalism has brought this beverage to my breakfast table." But when he reads in the papers that the government of Brazil has ordered part of the coffee crop destroyed, he does not say, "That is government for you"; he exclaims, "That is capitalism for you.

Structural violence is expressed by the dominant society in racism, sexism, shunning, discrimination, among other ostracizing practices, and it restricts individuals from partaking in the opportunities afforded to those of a higher social status. Structural violence is covert and subtle and is perpetrated by social institutions (e.g., the government).

Guvernul trebuia s? se ocupe de cerin?ele fundamentale, iar cet??enii lucrau ca s?-?i cumpere produsele de lux dorite, care erau achitate fie cu bani pe?in, fie prin transfer de credit electronic.

Our country use satellites to spy on its own people?' 'Well, the satellites go all around the world. They just don't bother to turn them off over the US.

Refining foods removes so much nutrition that our government requires that a few synthetic vitamins and minerals be added back. Such foods are labeled as enriched or fortified.

Refining foods removes so much nutrition that our government requires that a few synthetic vitamins and minerals be added back. Such foods are labeled as enriched or fortified. Whenever you see those words on a package, it means important nutrients are missing. Refining foods lowers the amount of hundreds of known nutrients, yet usually only five to ten are added back by fortification.