Quotes About Government

Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.

It is no longer enough for the citizen to submit—the modern state demands accomplices.

To find oneself at the mercy of the people's whims, thanks to universal suffrage, is what liberalism calls the guarantee of freedom.

Totalitarismus" ist die empirische Realität des "Gemeinwillens" (Volonté générale)

La condición suficiente y necesaria del despotismo es la desaparición de toda especie de autoridad social no conferida por el Estado.

La política sabia es el arte de vigorizar la sociedad y de debilitar el Estado.

Wird einem Demokraten ein Finger brandig, fällt ihm nur eines ein: Ein Gesetz zu fordern, das das Abschneiden aller Hände anordnet.

Los políticos, en la democracia, son los condensadores de la imbecilidad.

They started out calling liberal institutions democratic, and they ended up calling democratic despotisms liberal.

La revolución es progresista y busca el robustecimiento del estado; la rebelión es reaccionaria y busca su desvanecimiento. El revolucionario es un funcionario en potencia; el rebelde es un reaccionario en acto. (Revolution is progressive and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.)

The disaster of democracy only becomes apparent when its promises have been fully fulfilled.

When they die, aristocracies explode; democracies deflate.

La inflación trepó en 1967 al 41%. Y mientras que en la gestión de Alessandri el 50% de las inversiones eran hechas por el Estado, ya por 1966 las mismas ascendían al 80%. Crecía el desempleo, las acciones en la bolsa se desplomaban y comenzaba a aflorar un descontento que abarcaba a todas las clases sociales.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

this famous battle Rothschild had an agent who, as soon as victory was certain, set off for London and informed Rothschild. Rothschild started buying every British government share he could before anyone else heard the news. When they did, of course, the shares rocketed and Rothschild sold at a huge profit.

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Our dear comrade Jiang Qing told us, 'Smash to pieces the security and law enforcement agencies.

Without an army, what can politicians achieve?

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

The salvation of the young mind and the freeing of it from the noxious reactionary beliefs of their parents is one of the highest aims of the proletarian government.

In one of our government departments... but perhaps I had better not say exactly which one. For no one's more touchy than people in government departments, regiments, chancelleries or, in short, any kind of official body. Nowadays every private citizen thinks the whole of society is insulted when he himself is.