780 quotes found
“Haman is a symbol of a typical ungodly government representative”
“Once . . . long ago, hed 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 ...”
“And the problems come... one after another... an another... that's what government wants... problems.”
“They just want to control the population through fear and manipulation”
“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...”
“Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.”
“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 beh...”
“Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert”
“Really, what is the law when it stands in the way of what the government wants to do?”
“Government isn't about religion or signs or symbols It's about power and control.”
“Probably it's true, The Purge works for the government, who knows?”
“Contacting a government office on a weekend is like phoning the Pope on Easter morning.”
“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...”
“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...”
“Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.”
“Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.”
“I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations”
“The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that.”
“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 ch...”
“Government is big, we are small. We are only free when we slip through the cracks.”
