Quotes About Government

Government is tyranny. At its best it is dressed in pretty colours.

We were being offered exile on condition that we were silent about the reason we needed it. The silence chafed; it made us feel we were betraying those we had left behind. The British government was insisting on dealing with Hitler as a reasonable fellow, as if hoping he'd turn into one.

But what is "public property" if not an oxymoron?

When the Bolsheviks, came to power in 1917, Jews were able to take government jobs for the first time – hence the connection, in the minds of peasants whose first sight of a Jew in a position of authority was a commissar come to requisition grain or conscript men for the Red Army, between Jewishness and the nastier aspects of communism.

the German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky wrote that "absolute power is a structure, not a possession.

el Gobierno y la industria no se asignaban a los más trabajadores ni a los más capaces, sino a los más leales.

tratando de aprender a evitar que una nueva democracia se convirtiera en una tiranía.

hay otros Estados Unidos —los de Buchanan, los de Trump— que no ven que exista una diferencia importante entre democracia y dictadura.

government policy.

Las plazas universitarias, los puestos relacionados con los derechos civiles o los cargos de responsabilidad en el Gobierno y la industria no se asignaban a los más trabajadores ni a los más capaces, sino a los más leales.

I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

In 2012, corruption even by official statistics was eating up one-third of the state budget.

I love my country but hate the government and see no one, no one who can lead us.

his belief that the Orthodox Church is once again little more than a corrupt government asset.

Princess, I assure you, the English Government may be riddled with imperfections, but in the matters of creative delay we are unmatched.- Nash Renfrew

He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. ISAIAH 9:6 – 7

The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.

Roosevelt may have been a Republican, but he was a lot more sensitive to the changing times than his predecessor. He started regulating banks, the food industry, and railway trusts; introduced higher taxes; and for the first time consulted the trade unions, which the government had looked upon with suspicion up to then.

Corporate anthropologist Karen Stephenson argues that though trust is the natural glue of human connection since prehistoric times, it is mostly absent in modern hierarchies—especially in government, where vertical silos compete with and undermine one another, often within the same bureaucracy.

building a network—connecting people or institutions in specific ways for specific purposes—is a far better starting point than a strategy of deterrence, cooperation, or coordination with another government.

Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community's values.

put the facts very briefly, but they are indisputable. Education. The percentage to the whole population of children receiving education is 2.8, the percentage having risen by 0.9 since Mr. Gokhale moved his Education Bill six years ago. The percentage of children of school-going age attending school is 18.7. In 1913 the Government of India put the number of pupils at 4-1/2 millions; this has been accomplished in 63 years, reckoning from Sir Charles Wood's Educational Despatch in 1854,

Yeah, because nobody works in socialist countries. They're a real hoot.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.