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Quotes About Government

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
Without anarchy, there would be chaos.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
We really don't get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
Copyright: a system of monopoly privilege over the expression of ideas that enables government to stop consumer-friendly economic development and reward uncompetitive and legally privileged elites to fleece the public through surreptitious use of coercion.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
The cost of government control is human liberty, prosperity, and dignity.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
I am an anarchist in my personal life ... but I don't feel we have evolved far enough as a species to make anarchy work in society itself. We still need government to transfer the wealth from those who have too much to those who have too little, to make sure important projects get done, and keep territorial humans from screwing over and killing each other.
~ Jello Biafra
Later I ran into people that I went to school with that had no tangible memories of things like Watergate ... We were teenagers by then and they don't remember ... but they remember some commercial jingle! Nixon's Watergate was the best reality TV there is and Nixon went DOWN. It breaks my heart, now, that at almost every level of government is an army of Nixons.
~ Jello Biafra
The moment a gentleman perfects an invention and petitions the government for aid, he ceases to be an innocent citizen and becomes a culprit, a man to be shirked, browbeaten, and sneered at. I have never heard of any mechanician, inventor, or natural scientist who failed to find the government all but inaccessible, and whom the government did not discourage and treat badly.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.
~ Jennifer Granholm
However, in 1774, when she was nineteen, her materials were confiscated by government authorities. They had caught wind of the young artist's success; it was illegal to work as an artist without guild or academy membership – something that, as a woman, was very difficult to achieve.
~ Jennifer Higgie
The Union as it was, the Constitution as it is,
~ Jennifer L. Weber
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I was starting to believe that was what our country ran on—secret upon secret upon secret.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Cependant Quenu se rappelait une phrase de Charvet, cette fois, qui déclarait que ces bourgeois empâtés, ces boutiquiers engraissés, prêtant leur soutien à un gouvernement d' indigestion générale, devaient êtres jetés les premiers au cloaque. C' était grâce à eux, grâce à leur égoïsme du ventre, que le despotisme s' imposait et rongeait une nation.
~ Émile Zola
Les gouvernements suspectent la littérature parce qu'elle est une force qui leur échappe.
~ Émile Zola
La dictadura es como una aria y nunca llega a ser ópera.
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
The government makes use of the clergy as of one arm more, which, however, is now almost powerless through corruption. The Oriental church has no conception of the noble devotion which has honored Catholicism in the lives of Saint Thomas of Canterbury and Cardinal Cisneros. The
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
Half the country wouldn't have died if the landlords hadn't kept shipping away the corn, seizing cattle, rack-renting, evicting, torching cabins…Or if the government at Westminster hadn't thought it the most prudent course of action to sit on their arses and let the Irish starve.
~ Emma Donoghue
We go in a skyscraper that's Paul's office, he says he's crazy busy but he makes a Xerox of my hands and buys me a candy bar out of the vending machine. Going down in the elevator pressing the buttons, I play I'm actually inside a vending machine. We go in a bit of the government to get Grandma a new Social Security card because she lost the old one, we have to wait for years and years. Afterwards she takes me in a coffee shop where there's no green beans, I choose a cookie bigger than my face.
~ Emma Donoghue
Oy vermek bir ?eyleri de?i?tirseydi yasaklan?rd?.
~ Emma Goldman