Quotes of: Government-programs Keyword

A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Mort

A wise man governs his eyes, not because it is wrong to delight in beauty, but because otherwise his delight may suffer transmutation into something very different.

On the Meaning of Sex

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Margaret Thatcher

Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire.

The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Notebooks

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

You govern people, you do good and bad things. If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Governments are the deadliest terrorist organizations that have ever existed if body count means anything.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The thing that has impacted life on earth the most is life on mars. That’s where the government is storing all my clones.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

If you want to govern the people, You must place yourself below them. If you want to lead people, You must learn how to follow them.

Tao Te Ching

My romantic history since arriving on Novo has been non-existent, but I don't know what, if anything, came before; thanks to the government's cerebral pilfering.

True Calling

He’s a lovely guy, but there’s no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government can’t legislate for chemistry.

True Calling

But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.

A Patriot's Act

The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had.

A Patriot's Act

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.

Personal Memoirs

A brick could be used as a stamp on a letter, to increase the weight and boost the cost and profitability of the postal service. It would be government efficiency at its finest.  

Rick Bet Blank