c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Not surprisingly, the all-powerful evocation of terrorism is reserved only for those acts that threaten the government-sponsored status quo, but not that perpetrated by the state or corporations against the population. So, for example, the ugly history of white people lynching, bombing, and killing Blacks in the United States is not understood, taught, or remembered as a part of the homeland’s history of terrorism.
— Henry A. Giroux, America at War with Itself: Authoritarian Politics in a Free Society
Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that’s out of kings.
— Mark Twain
Be careful with the government, for they befriend a person only for their own needs. They appear to be friends when it is beneficial to them, but they do not stand by a person at the time of his distress.
— Yosef Marcus, Pirkei Avot: Ethics of the Fathers
There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at the very source. They begin life trampling on all their younger brothers and sisters, and relations of every kind, and are taught and educated so to do. With what ideas of justice or honor can that man enter a house of legislation, who absorbs in his own person the inheritance of a whole family of children, or metes out some pitiful portion with the insolence of a gift?
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
Only the most ingeniously optimistic, the most wilfully blind to the facts of history and psychology, can believe that paper guarantees of liberty - guarantees wholly unsupported by the realities of political and economic power - will be scrupulously respected by those who have known only the facts of governmental omnipotence on the one hand and, on the other, of mass dependence upon, and consequently subservience to, the state and its representatives.
— Aldous Huxley, Science, Liberty And Peace
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.
— John  Adams
[James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any kind of government assistance, and liberal intellectuals. His intellectual lineage went back to such bitter establishment opponents of Populism as the social Darwinists Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner. The battle between "the oppressed and their oppressors," as one People's Party publication had termed it in 1892, was redefined in his milieu: "the working masses who produce" became businessmen, and "the favored parasites who prey and fatten on the toil of others" became those who gained anything from government without paying proportional income taxes. "The mighty struggle" became one to hamstring the people who refused to stop making claims on government.
— Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
He believed that all forms of government were spiritually bankrupt, that the only true way to follow Jesus was to be radically self-reliant – off every grid. The energy grid was wasteful and corrupt, and the food grid devalued and destroyed the planet, and the culture at large was full of pain and deceit, and money itself was truly evil, and even the church (or, as he would say, the corporation that calls itself the church) was the most corrupt – contaminated by money and political greed and widespread land ownership. Worst of all, they called themselves holy.
— Catherine Lacey, The Answers
Government — or an administration — isn’t really the sum of its parts like people think, because all of those parts are competing for their own interests and pulling in opposite directions at the same time. It’s like an organism at war with itself.
— Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone
Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days past like blood on snow. Such was the case in France, where even as the guillotine released a steady river of gore, Royalist insurrections were suppressed by what had become a sophisticated military.In Toulon, the Royalist insurrection in 1793 led to an actual siege by republicans, spearheaded by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. The Royalists in Toulon, supported by the British and Spanish, were feared by the republicans as an existential threat to every hope and promise of the revolution. For months there were bombardments, cannon fire that made the windows in the prison tremble.
— Kelsey Brickl, Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert
When the people are not enlightened enough to exercise intelligent control, you take it from them, not to command their lives, but to create a safe depository for the ultimate powers.
— R.J.  Lawrence, The Xactilias Project
President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating how mean the rich can be to the poor, sick and elderly.
— Steven Magee
An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?
— David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
You cannot expect a corrupt law enforcement system to prosecute the illegal activities of corporations and their government minions.
— Steven Magee
You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore you and we choose to exercise this right.
— Steven Magee
I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop, incompetent cop, aggressive cop, assaulting cop, corrupt cop, or the worst one of them all, the terminator cop.
— Steven Magee
There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.
— Steven Magee
Go to any airport in this country and you’ll see how well our government is dealing with the terrible danger you’re in. TSA staffers are wanding 90-year-old ladies in wheelchairs, and burrowing through their suitcases. Toddlers are on the no-fly list. Lipsticks are confiscated. And it’s all done with the highest seriousness. It’s a show of protection and it stirs the fear pot, giving us over and over an image of being in grave personal peril, needing Big Brother to make sure we’re safe.
— Ann Medlock
The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption.
— Steven Magee
Beware of corporate government cops.
— Steven Magee
Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
For so long Marianne and Albrecht and many of their friends had known Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people's most selfish, self-pitying emotions and ignorance was an embarrassment for their country.
— Jessica Shattuck, The Women in the Castle
All political meetings are very much alike. Somebody gets up and introduces the speaker of the evening, and then the speaker of the evening says at great length what he thinks of the scandalous manner in which the Government is behaving or the iniquitous goings-on of the Opposition. From time to time confederates in the audience rise and ask carefully rehearsed questions, and are answered fully and satisfactorily by the orator. When a genuine heckler interrupts, the orator either ignores him, or says haughtily that he can find him arguments but cannot find him brains. Or, occasionally, when the question is an easy one, he answers it. A quietly conducted political meeting is one of England's most delightful indoor games. When the meeting is rowdy, the audience has more fun, but the speaker a good deal less.
— P.G. Wodehouse, Psmith in the City
A government of laws, and not of men
— John Adams
Don’t get me wrong. Government Contracting is difficult, but the help you give the government makes our country strong.
— Linda Rawson, The Minority and Woman-Owned Small Business Guide to Government Contracts: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
The West is evidently no longer a safe place to express our opinions, unless we are prepared to meet a bloody end by doing so. The choice is ours, but we can be guaranteed that our government and law enforcement agencies will continue to support pedophilia, political correctness and multicultural genocide under the guise of religion.
— Anita B. Sulser PhD, We Are One
...it...planted seeds of doubt as to whether we think diabolically enough when we wonder what our government is doing behind our backs.
— Alexandra Zapruder, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
Just as the attempts to preserve the power of knights in armor were doomed to fail in the face of gunpowder weapons, so the modern notions of nationalism and citizenship are doomed to be short-circuited by microtechnology. Indeed, they will eventually become comic in much the way that the sixteenth century. The cherished civic notions of the twentieth century will be comic anachronisms to new generations after the transformation of the year 2000. The Don Quixote of the twenty-first century will not be a knight-errant struggling to revive the glories of feudalism but a bureaucrat in a brown suit, a tax collector yearning for a citizen to audit.
— James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around a quarter of the average death rate of nonstate societies, and less than a tenth of that for the most violent one.
— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
As an Auyana man living in New Guinea under the Pax Australiana put it, “Life was better since the government came” because “a man could now eat without looking over his shoulder and could leave his house in the morning to urinate without fear of being shot.
— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in Parliament used to be something when I was young, but it won't make a make a gentleman now-a-days. It seems to me that none but brewers, and tallow-chandlers, and lawyers go into Parliament now.
— Anthony Trollope, The Belton Estate
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may
— Daniel Webster
It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong
— Voltaire
Green recorded these initial thoughts about government: "Either the people will pay direct taxes, or they will pay none if they know it; and if they don't know when they pay taxes, it is quite time for the prudent, economical administration of government that they did. The Treasury should just supply the moderate wants of the administration of government; an overflowing treasury brings with it corruption and fraud. It has been the curse of nations, and, profiting by the experience of the past, it becomes the present to avoid the instruments of their overflow.
— Michael Rubbinaccio, New York's Father is Murdered! The Life and Death of Andrew Haswell Green
he fought hard against corruption in all forms, especially with the Canal Ring (every scandal during this time seems to have the word "ring" attached to it, much like every scandal since Watergate has "gate" attached to it.)
— Michael Rubbinaccio, New York's Father is Murdered! The Life and Death of Andrew Haswell Green
The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property, not politics, "public education" or the creation of national mythology that allowed humankind to transition from prehistory to history. Just as trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property have always been on the forefront of civilization's advancement, so were they also the driving force behind civilization's emergence.
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Leaders who are silent and do nothing are as guilty and do worse than those who commit these horrific attacks
— George Stamatis
It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use.
— Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government
The authorities? The authorities?” I laughed. “Why is it people think the authorities are some form of gods with either great justice or great, cunning evil, rather than the same plodding fools they see in their daily lives, and most of all in their mirrors?
— Richard Ben Sapir, The Far Arena
When a religious system or a government organizes into a bureaucracy, it is the bureaucracy that incessantly moves all activities increasingly and inevitably towards it's own destruction. The momentum will always become greater than the influence of it's wisest members.
— R.A.Delmonico
The general public has failed to realize that the USA government has built a High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in most cities with the mass deployment of smart radio frequency transmitting utility meters.
— Steven Magee
Individualists and collectivists both have been wronged by the government, and we all maintain (consciously or subconsciously) a list of the ways our lives have been diminished by its bureaucracies and actions. One of the differences between the collectivists and the individualists is that those wrongs are front and center for the individualists, whereas the collectivists are blind to those wrongs, or they excuse those wrongs, or they forgive those wrongs. "Use us," the collectivists say, while they throw not only themselves into the bottomless pit that is the Administrative State, but everybody else too.
— Mike Klepper
The only legitimate purpose of government is to protect the lives and property of its citizens.
— Mike Klepper
Kshatriya, or the man who is qualified to protect the sufferers, is meant to rule the state. Untrained, lower class men or men without ambition to protect the sufferers cannot be placed on the seat as an administrator. Unfortunately in the age of Kali the lower class men without training occupy the post of a ruler by strength of popular votes and instead of protecting the sufferers, such men create a situation quite intolerable for everyone. Such rulers illegally gratify themselves at the cost of all comforts of the citizens, and thus the chaste mother earth cries to see the pitiable condition of her sons, both men and animals.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
— Montesquieu
For the evil our government does, tinfoil hats are simply not required, and are indeed a detriment.
— Mike Klepper
It seems to us that one of the deepest divisions between the Russians and the Americans or British, is in their feeling toward their governments. The Russians are taught, and trained, and encouraged to believe that their government is good, that every part of it is good, and that their job is to carry it forward, to back it up in all ways. On the other hand, the deep emotional feeling among Americans and British is that all government is somehow dangerous, that there should be as little government as possible, that any increase in the power of government is bad, and that existing government must be watched constantly, watched and criticized to keep it sharp and on its toes.
— John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal
The Left has made the young gullible and materialist, while the Right has turned them into nihilistic cynics. This paradigm of power and struggle, expressed through endless ego-driven duality games will eventually lose steam. The new methodology must reconcile these two extremes by formulating a way of living that embodies the virtues of a natural, universal being - simplicity, patience, and compassion.
— VD.
I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.
— H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
— James Madison
There shall be no end to the government of God
— Sunday Adelaja
To pattern government after a kingdom is not to reflect the heavenly vision of God’s kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Haman is a symbol of a typical ungodly government representative
— Sunday Adelaja
The government of any nation always represents the most corrupt part of a nation
— Sunday Adelaja
God himself made government and gave it an environment of the kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me the most. I distrust extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who from such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner.
— Frank Herbert
Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?
— Thomas Love Peacock
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
— Alexander Hamilton
What I always hate is when people call our movement a 'revolution'. For this to be a revolution, we would have to be opposing a standing government. Look around; there is no standing government.
— Joe Reyes, Aftermath
Once . . . long ago, he’d thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fallen into old patterns. It was like some hideous contrivance with plastic memory. Shape it any way you wanted, but relax for a moment, and it snapped into the ancient forms. Forces at work beyond his reach in human breasts eluded and defied him.
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
Tea Party adherents seemed to arrive at their dislike of the federal government via three routes--through their religious faith (the government curtailed the church, they felt), through hatred of taxes (which they saw as too high and too progressive), and through its impact on their loss of honor.
— Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.
— Steven Magee
And the problems come... one after another... an another... that's what government wants... problems.
— Deyth Banger, Problem 1#2
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...
— Thomas Jefferson, benjamin franklin,
When interacting with corporate government agents, always assume that they are corrupt until proven otherwise.
— Steven Magee
Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.
— Stefan Molyneux
They just want to control the population through fear and manipulation
— Anon1467
​On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction.
— Abhijit Naskar
We have gold because we cannot trust governments
— Herbert Hoover
I'm going to draw up a human-rights contract that says everyone on earth must agree we are here as caretakers of the planet, first and foremost.
— Jenni Fagan, The Sunlight Pilgrims
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. And so this is the situation we find: a succession of Galactic Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they very rarely notice that they’re not. And somewhere in the shadows behind them—who? Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government.
— William O. Douglas
Among peoples of such mixed natures, such diverse histories and philosophies, and different ways of life, most administrative problems are problems of a choice of whims, of changing and conflicting goals; not how to do what the people want done, but what they want done, and whether their next generation will want it enough to make work on it, now, worthwhile.''They sound insane,' Trobt said. 'Are your administrators supposed to serve the flickering goals of demented minds?''We must weigh values. What is considered good may be a matter of viewpoint, and may change from place to place, from generation to generation. In determining what people feel and what their unvoiced wants are, a talent of strategy, and an impatience with the illogic of others, are not qualifications.
— Charles V. de Vet, Second Game
My father once told me that American democracy is a people’s democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It depends on all of us. But our system is more fragile than we know. To sustain it, we must always cherish the ideals on which it was founded, remain vigilant against the dark forces that threaten it, and actively engage in the process of making it work.
— George Takei
Dictatorial government is more dangerous than lions!
— Enock Maregesi
Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
That is the one thing that makes me a Democrat, I suppose - this idea that our communal values, our sense of mutual responsibility and social solidarity, should express themselves not just in the church or the mosque or the synagogue; not just on the blocks where we live, in the places where we work, or within our own families; but also through our government.
— Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal treatment under the law. Despite our missteps and shortcomings, these ideals still inspire hope among the oppressed and give us pride in being Americans.
— Jimmy Carter
Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.
— Steven Magee
Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes much more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we ca make real change that lasts.
— Ron Paul
Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert
— Sophocles, Antigone
Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes much more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.
— Ron Paul, Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes much more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts
— Ron Paul, Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
i want to explode in a cloud and be like a lightning striking the earth i want to lift the world and throw it in the other way maybe create a path so much things to say and i will talk about my life now since my birth day well there is not so much to talk about besides a boring life with issues i was talking to the other day and since then i knew its not worth i named it "Ben", like all names here in this country they beggin with ben and all the power comes from "Ben" "Ben" , i mean "bennani", "ben kirane", "ben jalon", "ben chaquron" i can't understand me and you can't understand these things and i hope none of us will because this could make you another you , and you dont want to be another you but i will be another me anytime facing you , me and you we are we who we were and are like straires we are who we are but we are changng and we will still be who we are because changing is not bad no matter how you look deeply into this you will find it like a trap trying to kill you inside you an let your real you go out from that page you created you dont worry it dosent rhime but maybe it does if you look closely weed eternety and happiness from above can i fuck with your mind a little love
— Marouane LAASSAFAR
If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.
— Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
The police are often as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.
— Steven Magee
I remember that there was a time when I believed that a government and its departments were there to meet the needs, to understand the needs, and to act on the needs of the people for whom they have taken responsibility. It took me some time to question why it was in relation to [Aboriginal] people that they did not meet the needs, or take the steps, that responsible government demands. Why do they not provide the simple basics in the ways that work for us? Why not? There has never been an honest answer to this.
— Rom Watangu
Really, what is the law when it stands in the way of what the government wants to do?
— Juliana Barbassa, Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink
be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and Good Government of Canada
— The British North America Act, Article 91
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention
—  have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property
Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is—and will continue to be—a product of our culture and our collective decisions. Whatever it is, it's what we have made it.
— Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Government isn't about religion or signs or symbols… It's about power and control.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
I realized that the legal system was corrupt when I went to court and the judge imposed a very short time limit on my evidence submission before removing my legal rights to free speech.
— Steven Magee
If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.
— Steven Magee
When the government and electrical utility company jointly harass an electrical fraud researcher, it confirms that the research is progressing in the right direction!
— Steven Magee
Reigning doctrines are often called a "double standard".The term is misleading.It is more accurate to describe them as a single standard,clear and unmistakable,the standard that Adam Smith called the "vile maxim of the masters of mankind: ...All for ourselves,and nothing for other people." Much has changed since his day,but the vile maxim flourishes.
— Noam Chomsky, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'.
— Christina Engela, Loderunner
If a man exists who is immune to force, even if he's the most blameless anchorite living on top of a column in the middle of the desert, he is beyond government, beyond authority, and cannot be controlled; and that would be intolerable.
— K.J. Parker, Amor Vincit Omnia
It is clear that the protective functions of workplace health and safety have transferred to the workers through the process of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of relevant government departments.
— Steven Magee
Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT.
— Christina Engela, Loderunner
It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.
— Christina Engela
I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills.
— Christina Engela, Demonspawn
An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet acts in a manner which cannot be reconciled with that very Constitution.
— Christina Engela
Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent
— Christina Engela
What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent.
— Christina Engela, Demonspawn
Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.
— Steven Magee
Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.
— Steven Magee
It takes very little to govern good people.
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
Police internal affairs is amongst the most corrupt departments that you will find in governments.
— Steven Magee
When we think of readapting mankind to a world of unity and co-operation, we have to consider that practically all the educational machinery on earth, is still in the hands of God-selling or Marx-selling combines. Everywhere in close co-operation with our nationalist governments, the oil and steel interests, our drug salesmanship, and so forth, the hirelines of these huge religious concerns, with more or less zeal and loyalty, are selling destruction to mankind.
— H.G. Wells, You Can't Be Too Careful
I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it.
— Steven Magee
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things
— Alexander Hamilton
government is legitimate not so much because it represents the 'general will', but because its policies are, ideally and counterfactually, the result of the public deliberation of all who are concerned by the decision
— Frédéric Vandenberghe
it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Constitution descended to recount every minutia
— James Madison
The Nigerian economy needs the world, and the world needs the Nigerian economy.
— Saminu Kanti
You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.
— Steven Magee
Probably it's true, The Purge works for the government, who knows?
— Deyth Banger
What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.
— Steven Magee
Contacting a government office on a weekend is like phoning the Pope on Easter morning.
— Kathy Reichs, Bones to Ashes
The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.
— William Golding, Lord of the Flies
I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.
— Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
— James Madison, Federalist Papers Nos. 10 and 51
If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of any par­ticular vote. When he is merely one of millions, the individual elector feels himself to be impotent, a neg­ligible quantity. The candidates he has voted into office are far away, at the top of the pyramid of power. Theoretically they are the servants of the people; but in fact it is the servants who give orders and the peo­ple, far off at the base of the great pyramid, who must obey.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
My colleague and I are journalists. ... Not of the muckraking variety, I hasten to assure you! Corruption is a necessary and time-honored concomitant of any functioning government, which we support wholeheartedly.
— Michael Swanwick, Rogues
News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.
— Steven Magee
Computers are one of the products in the USA that appear to be unregulated by the government which leaves consumers unprotected from flawed devices.
— Steven Magee
The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.
— Steven Magee
In India, all along, development as a process was always affected from the top down style of functioning. Naturally, because along with our freedom we had inherited a bureaucracy, which was designed by the British to rule, not to serve. The British way of doing things had always been to get things done through a government department and after independence we Indians merely continued this system.
— Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream
Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".
— Steven Magee
Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.
— Alex Stein
If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for.
— Elizabeth Warren
I am a hero! Are you?" - Chris
— Yanan Melo, Naaalala Niyo Ba Ang Noli Me Tangere?
Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.
— Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream
Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".
— A.E. Samaan
Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.
— A.E. Samaan
Chris. What do you want, child?"I sighed and walked another three steps forward. I stared into his eyes and spoke the one word that terrified him, "Democracy.
— Yanan Melo, Naaalala Niyo Ba Ang Noli Me Tangere?
I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government itself--whether it be the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, or the proletariat. For government by any class is fatal to the welfare of the whole,
— Rafael Sabatini
Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.
— A.E. Samaan
The term "totalitarian" was derived from Adolf Hitler's "Total State", which was a "craddle to grave" solution that sought to micro-manage all aspects of humanity.
— A.E. Samaan
The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people.
— Owen   Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?
— A.E. Samaan
I would like Britain - and indeed other countries - to be run in the interests of people's needs and aspirations, rather than on the basis of profit for a small elite; for democracy to be democratically managed by working people; for democracy to be extended as far as possible, including in the workplace and the economy.
— Owen   Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations
— Ben Carson
The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.
— A.E. Samaan
The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that.
— Brian K. Vaughan, Ex Machina, Vol. 5: Smoke, Smoke
New Zealand has the cheapest government money can buy.
— Grant McLachlan
America's leaders should be examples of integrity and high moral standards. When their behavior evokes shame rather than pride and becomes something that we don't want to discuss in front of the children at the kitchen table, we should consider impeachment.
— Ben Carson
On December 9, 1994, Yeltsin issued a statement ordering the Federal army to execute the disarmament of all illegal armed units in Chechnya, or as they were known locally, the government.
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Government is build on secrets.
— Deyth Banger
Lest we lay too heavy a criticism against any government administration--local, state, or federal--we are reminded that American government is representational. Political leaders reflect the people who elect them (as well as those who fail in this civic responsibility) as a mirror reflects those who gaze into it.
— Ron Brackin
Democracy is the process to elect the Government of the Upper class or caste people, by the poor people and for the corporate people - Idiotneil
— Neil Jain
There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences.
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance.
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have worked out an array of complicated techniques so they often don't have to pay taxes at all... The scale of sheer robbery by corporate power is enormous.
— Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism's diametric opposite of is Libertarianism.
— A.E. Samaan
In fact, caucus, a word derived from the Algonquin languages, better reflected the layers of talking circles and the goal of consensus that were at the heart of governance.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
Government is big, we are small. We are only free when we slip through the cracks.
— Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang
In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If I was a private individual, I'd be more careful; but being as I'm a government, I'm privileged to make a God-damned fool of myself in any way I choose, especially by spending a lot more money than I've got or ever will have, and promising to do things that I ain't got a chance of doing.
— Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell
private philanthropy is no substitution for hard-fought battles over labour laws and social security, in part because philanthropy can be retracted on a whim, while elected officials, at least in theory, have citizens to answer to.
— Linsey McGoey, No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.
— Howard Zinn, Just War
What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?
— Ann Leckie
Democracy is the process to elect government of the upper-class people, by the poor people and for the corporate people.
— Nilesh (Neil) jain
[W]e have a democracy that uses free elections to put in place known obstructionists, and a media that disproportionately gives a forum to economically driven ideology over sound science.
— Noam Chomsky, Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
You and I, my son, are that "below." That was true in 1776. It is true today. There is no them without you, and without the right to break you they must necessarily fall from the mountain, lose their divinity, and tumble out of the Dream.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious.
— A.E. Samaan
The government is an artificial creation, established by the people to defend everyone's equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And when the government does not fulfill that obligation, it is the right of the people, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, to 'alter or abolish' the government.
— Howard Zinn, Just War
Censorship exists to protect corruption.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
— Alan Shepard
What goes up, must come down." Well, Issac Newton's law doesn't apply to the internet. That's what people don't realize. When you put something up, as long as there is an internet there will be that same stuff. When you're a senior citizen, what you uploaded to Facebook at a high school party will still be there. Whatever you upload to the internet, no matter how strong your passwords and security are, guaranteed the government or some advertising corporation will look at what you post someday. The only law that applies to the internet is, "For every reaction, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Post a photograph and you'll get attention. Post your old scanned Kodak slides and family home movies, you'll get a nostalgia rush and you'll reunite people with better days. But post a bad thing, thinking you can go unnoticed, and you'll never be able to crawl out from underneath it.
— Rebecca McNutt
A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal thing; it is not collective. You don’t gain liberty because you belong to a group. So we don’t talk about women’s rights or gay rights or anything else. Everybody has an absolute equal right as an individual, and it comes to them naturally.
— Ron Paul
Yea” might be turned into “Nay” and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied to the matter. The second was that in any argument, the victor is always right, and the third that though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment.- Roger Fenwick, Duke of Grand Fenwick
— Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse That Roared
Any Federal official, who engages in employment discrimination, lacks the moral integrity to evenhandedly enforce our Nation’s laws or manage Federal programs.
— Tanya Ward Jordan
If freedom isn't free and people's rights are being violated and suppressed, then Governments have NO need to exist.
— ELW-Reta Barnes
Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs.
— Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files