Quotes of: Bad-government Keyword

Three things are good in small doses and bad in big ones: yeast, salt, and hesitation.

Hebrew

Why save when your son is a good son? Why save when your son is a bad son?

Indian

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

Traditional

The jobs in the greatest demand in the future don't yet exist and will require workers to use technologies that have not yet been invented to solve problems that we don't yet even know are problems.

Citizenville: Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age

In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned. In India alone, millions of government-funded latrines have become goat-sheds...

Rose George

The UFOs were explicable enough, just experimental aircrafts from the airport. Of course the government was not going to tell people what was actually going on. She would not be surprised if the government encouraged the UFO cultists to flock there a...

Artificial Gods

If legislation is truly necessary, one would expect the government to be able to provide proof of this beyond anecdote and speculation. Such proof is the least we can expect before we accept a government restriction of liberty as legitimate.

Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty

The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I do not curse you for being cruel. I do not curse you (though I might) for being kind. I curse you for being safe!

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it...

Monstrous Regiment

It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants.

A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington

The recognition of a distinct 'national identity' among members of the Body of Christ can keep before us our ties with Christians who live under different secular governments, with whom we have bonds that transcend and override our commitments to gov...

Political Evangelism

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, ...

Prejudices: Third Series

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

It's not that we don't care--it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved.

When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as m...

Tim O'Reilly

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must ch...

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, t...

John Major

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of crea...

Robert Higgs

Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they...

Stephen Kinzer