Quotes of: Government-spending Keyword

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

John Major

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

Sara Harrison

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Alexander Hamilton

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

Alexander Pope

Music is one of the most forceful instruments for governing the mind and spirit of man.

Life

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Beth Simone Noveck

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

Jenny Shipley

Nearly everyone who is asked where they want to spend their final days says at home, surrounded by people they love and who love them. That's the consistent finding of surveys and, in my experience as a doctor, remains true when people become patient...

Love

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Dune Messiah

From DW: I got it. “Here's the thing,” I said. "I'm not going to be the government's bitch.

Death Whispers

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

Alvin Adams

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

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