Quotes about Government

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And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by — Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong. I want to be liked b — Dave Matthes
Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate i — David E. Wilkins, The Legal Universe: Observations of the Foundations of American Law
F.O.I. protects the guilty, but not the innocent! — Anthony T. Hincks
Who really owns the Earth?Corporations? Governments?Charity Organizations?Or...Should it be the people?You decide! — Anthony T. Hincks
Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth. — Anthony T. Hincks
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simu — George Orwell, 1984
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. — Thomas Jefferson
At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY — Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, ev — Imre Kertész, Liquidation
Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on — Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.
He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law — Sheri S. Tepper, Wizard's Eleven
Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thi — Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant
In any government, interests precede truth. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in thei — Mark Haskell Smith, Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup
You govern people, you do good and bad things.If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set lo — Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant
When I was ten years old, one of my friends brought a Shaleenian kangaroo-cat to school one day. I remember the way it h — David Gerrold, Star Hunt