Quotes about govern
government prison ifs
What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly. Hugo Chavez
government giving advice
Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually. Howard Warren Buffett
government investing mortgage
When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.
government historical religion
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs. Howard Zinn
government profound people
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
government beard united-states
Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their Constitutions are intended to serve these interests.
government enemy important
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.
government taught murder
[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.
government white office
The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating ? - those are the things that determine what happens....
government people independence
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world.
government justice mind
Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative of the national government or the politicians. They only respond to the power of social movements.
government together bold-actions
There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.
government order white
Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans.
government opponents dramatic
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions. Hannah Arendt
government tyrants political
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.
government people politics
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments. Guy de Maupassant
government support religion
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. Gouverneur Morris
government dominion spheres
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres.
government america people
The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt. Gore Vidal
government giving hatred
The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.
government class people
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
government people done
Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
government liberty libertarian
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)
government decision gains
When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off. Gina McCarthy
government waiting godot
Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot. Gianfranco Fini
government results
Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature. Giambattista Vico
government iran two
There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system. Hassan Rouhani
government world resolution
There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions. Hassan Nasrallah
government cities chicago
I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government. Harold Washington
government league challenging-the-status-quo
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. Harold Pinter
government needs secure
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement. James Dean
government water unity
There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water. James Bryce
government giving democracy
No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.