Quotes About Government

Our challenge is to restore both trust in Labour as a party of government and trust in democracy as the best means of delivering what the public wants.

Corbyn Labour's budget numbers simply don't add up on the NHS and the economy.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the peoples body.

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.

whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

the IMF, those institutional bastions of belief in the free market system, believe that governments should not intervene in the exchange rate

It is not difficult to show that a theory of democratic control can be developed which is free of the paradox of sovereignty. The theory I have in mind is one which does not proceed, as it were, from a doctrine of the intrinsic goodness or righteousness of a majority rule, but rather from the baseness of tyranny; or more precisely, it rests upon the decision, or upon the adoption of the proposal, to avoid and to resist tyranny." Karl Popper, 'The Open Society and Its Enemies', Chapter 7.

It has been indicated above that because of its self-sufficiency, the ideal state appears to Plato as the perfect individual, and the individual citizen, accordingly, as an imperfect copy of the state.

Devlet gerekli bir belad?r. Devletin güç yetkileri gere?inden fazla olmamal?d?r.

Demokrasi ve despotizm aras?ndaki fark: demokrasilerde kan dökmeden hükümetler devrilir; oysa despotizmde bu böyle de?ildir. 3. Demokrasi, vatanda?lara iyilikler sunamaz (ve sunmamal? da). Gerçekten de "demokrasi" tek ba??na bir ?ey yapamaz; bir ?eyler yapacak olan ancak demokratik bir devletin vatanda?lar?d?r (ve ku?kusuz hükümetleridir).

Demek ki Platon'un, "Kim yönetmeli?" ya da "Kim iktidar sahibi olmal??" sorusu yanl??t?r. demokrasiye inanmamam?z?n nedeni, demokraside halk?n egemen olmas?ndan kaynaklanm?yor. Ne siz ne de ben hakimiz; tam tersine sizler de, ben de yönetiliyoruz, hatta bazen ho?umuza gitmeyecek kadar çok. demokrasi bizim için, siyasi muhalefet ve bu nedenle de siyasi özgürlük anlay???yla uzla?abilen tek yönetim biçimidir.

Ben bir ölçek önermi?tim: Ço?unluk bir hükümet de?i?ikli?ini arzu etti?i takdirde, devletin politik kurumlar? vatanda?lar?na, kan dökmeksizin hükümet de?i?ikli?ini gerçekle?tirmeyi mümkün k?l?yorsa, o devlet politik olarak özgürdür. Daha k?sa bir ifadeyle: yöneticilerimizden kan dökmeden kurtulabiliyorsak özgürüz demektir. (Hayat Problem Çözmektir)

They had left the demigod they now called the Voice in a government creche in orbit. The Archipelago had facilities for newly born artificial sentients—a revelation that still astonished and unsettled Marya when she thought about it. The Voice had gone willingly into the maw of the jewellike orbiting structure; as the doors closed she had looked back, but Marya could read nothing in her gaze—neither hope nor fear.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

Governments who manipulate population growth have two choices: making maternity pleasant, or making it inescapable.

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy,

Governments have historically opted to tax what they could, rather than what they should, and it shows.

tax employees, and you'll head for a jobless economy, as many countries are discovering today. It is happening in part thanks to the twentieth century's legacy of perverse tax policies, which charge firms for hiring humans (through payroll taxes), subsidise them for buying robots (through tax-deductible capital investments), and levy next to nothing on the use of land and non-renewable resources.

Government worried that the parishes could not cope with such demands, and there was a widely held notion that the able-bodied were indolently living on handouts.

They want this resource for themselves. They're blaming us for the low salmon runs. But we're not the ones overfishing. We've always caught what we needed. Some years are better than others, but we respect the cycle. We did not create this mess. You see over there? They are allowed to catch more than us because the government said they could. And further out, in the ocean, they can catch even more.

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.