Quotes of: Conservative-government Keyword

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Beth Simone Noveck

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Joichi Ito

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

Judy Woodruff

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Jay Kay

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

Requiem for a Nun

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

Stranger in a Strange Land

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

The Man-Made World

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Government can only reign over a classes-divided society.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Who’d pay more to get less? Only a fool—or a government agency. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

Planned Chaos

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

George MacDonald

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

John Erskine

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

Henry Mintzberg

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Nong Duc Manh

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

Peter Blair Henry

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

Philip Massinger