Quotes About Government

The Micklethwaite family who owned and ran Cuckoo Farm were huddled in a group, sleepy and bewildered in thick coats thrown on over their pajamas. Three kids, aged between seven and twelve, were clinging to their parents. An old woman, whom Sid took to be the grandmother, was starting to argue with an agent, her croaky voice rising. She was claiming a lot of rights, as well as being insulting about Nazis and corrupt government officials.

The outcome of Twenty-Eight was that any upright citizen could buy and use weapons-grade material as long as they did not utilize said material to fabricate a weapon.

Who wants to wind up living in a theocracy?

Don't waste your breath. You can't help the terminally stupid. If people hate government so much they don't listen to official advice, they can't expect government to bend over backward to help them.

must remember that military force ultimately exists to serve the civilian populace, even though we might despise their choice of leaders.

Fucking civil servants, always stand in the way of progress.

What is it every authoritarian government says? If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.

Politicians are its creatures, too. They are the easiest of all humans to corrupt.

My sympathies.' 'Don't waste your breath. You can't help the terminally stupid. If people hate government so much they don't listen to official advice, they can't expect government to bend over backwards to help them.

Massive starship building programme initiated in O'Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2 million a week in 2160: Great Dispersal.

It's not governments I have an issue with—or not the concept of democratic government, anyway. But all we have now is rule by rich people, the ones who keep ninety percent of the world in relative poverty so their unbalanced market can continue paying for a lifestyle of total excess.

Who had actually been first would never now be known. Both governments had claimed them: the wealth contained in the lonely metal chunks would be a heady boost for the planet whose companies could mine and refine such plentiful ore.

An anarchist is not someone who favors chaos but someone who favors the total liberation of the world through the abolition of capitalism, government, and all other forms of oppressive authority, to be replaced by any number of other social arrangements, proven or utopian.

Mugabe concedes immediately. These ex-guerrillas were the backbone of his revolution. And from 1997 he starts putting through what are, by Zimbabwean standards, enormous one-off payments to the fifty thousand war vets, plus generous monthly pensions. Many economists calculate the real collapse of the economy from this moment. The Zimbabwe dollar crashes, never to recover. Mugabe brings Hunzvi into the government; he is too much of a threat outside it.

sauvignon blanc and turns to look out the window. "Africans can't do governments," he suddenly announces. "We are useless at it, disorganized." I close my newsmagazine and nod noncommittally. "And our institutions never work because we never pay our dues." He reaches up and presses his bell for more wine.

When Kevin Rudd announced that Australia would bid for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council Tony Abbott announced his immediate opposition. The bid would be abandoned in the event of a Coalition victory at the 2010 election, he pledged. The total cost was then estimated at perhaps $40 million, though ended up at around $25 million.16 For perspective, the Victorian Government spent $56.7 million to subsidise the Grand Prix in 2012 alone.17

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

So Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priestsí land does not belong to Pharaoh.

He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.

Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

and these were his chief officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest;

Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.