Quotes of: Governments Keyword

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

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

P. J. O'Rourke

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.

Santosh Kalwar

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.

Scott Walker

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

Kim Campbell