Quotes of: State-government Keyword

All actors say they're concerned about the state of the theatre, but what they're really concerned about is that there'll be less work around.

Michael Gambon

The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.

Najib Razak

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

Barton Gellman

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Carl von Clausewitz

Since dugpas wished to get you out of here, where you were safe, how else should they expel you than by causing you to expel yourselves by violence? When fools make war they expend their resources squandering money and life and food until the victor ...

The Devil's Guard

I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy...

Present Concerns

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other...

The Principles of Morals and Legislation

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

Civil Disobedience

It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions.

Considerations on Representative Government

No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his.

Considerations on Representative Government

The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.

A Christian Manifesto

If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down to a finite number of fallible people talking to each other . . . ​

CryoBurn

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

From Dictatorship to Democracy

...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been.

Darkness at Noon

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It's mind-boggling.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed. It sounded like a revolution. It sounded like hope.

The Eternal War

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

The Gilded Age

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Application does not guarantee citizenship; it is granted by the government. In Heaven, citizenship is granted only by Jesus Christ the ultimate judge. Matthew 7:15-23

God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

The Girl Who Played with Fire