![Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.](/assets/img/quote-photos/government-in-its-very-essence-is-opposed-to-all-increase-in-knowledge-its-ten.jpg)
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government needs reform talked trust
has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." () Sean McCormack
government telling
He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.
government report watch
I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers
government madison
This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.
government issues people
MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence. Richard Posner
government two space
It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.
government tyrants rights
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. Richard Perle
government political levels
Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority. Richard Holbrooke
government entrepreneur priorities
Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners. Ruben Hinojosa
essence cooperation linked
Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation. William Feather
essence ideas quality
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality. Russell Baker
essence voice mind
If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed' Rodney Carrington
essence scripts credit
I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence. Rod Serling
essence transcendentalism divorced
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. Willard Van Orman Quine
essence giving mind
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. Virginia Woolf
essence property subsistence
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. William Ames
essence giving spices
The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give. William Arthur Ward
essence world prejudice
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. William Hazlitt
humanity essentials culture
As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity. Rick Steves
humanity belief behavior
The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs. Neale Donald Walsch
humanity lessons want
One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood. Nate Berkus
humanity world bears
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding. Joseph Addison
humanity pity incitement
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
humanity world want
There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity. Jose Saramago
humanity ill humans
The things that make us human often make us ill. Jonathan Rosen
humanity culture venus
The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. Jacque Fresco
humanity literature becoming
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. Henry David Thoreau