Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Jamie Dimon

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Romain Rolland

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

John Milton

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

Gary Zukav

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Euripides

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

George R. R. Martin

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

Jeremy Taylor

for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens...

Jawaharlal Nehru

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Dennis Weaver

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.