Government Quotes

An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet acts in a manner which cannot be reconciled with that very Constitution.

~ Christina Engela

What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent.

~ Christina Engela

Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.

~ Steven Magee

Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.

~ Steven Magee

It takes very little to govern good people.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Police internal affairs is amongst the most corrupt departments that you will find in governments.

~ Steven Magee

When we think of readapting mankind to a world of unity and co-operation, we have to consider that practically all the educational machinery on earth, is still in the hands of God-selling or Marx-selling combines. Everywhere in close co-operation with our nationalist governments, the oil and steel interests, our drug salesmanship, and so forth, the hirelines of these huge religious concerns, with more or less zeal and loyalty, are selling destruction to mankind.

~ H.g. Wells

I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it.

~ Steven Magee

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things

~ Alexander Hamilton

government is legitimate not so much because it represents the 'general will', but because its policies are, ideally and counterfactually, the result of the public deliberation of all who are concerned by the decision

~ Frédéric Vandenberghe

it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Constitution descended to recount every minutia

~ James Madison

The Nigerian economy needs the world, and the world needs the Nigerian economy.

~ Saminu Kanti

You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.

~ Steven Magee

Probably it's true, The Purge works for the government, who knows?

~ Deyth Banger

What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.

~ Steven Magee

Contacting a government office on a weekend is like phoning the Pope on Easter morning.

~ Kathy Reichs

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

~ William Golding

I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.

~ Thomas Jefferson

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

~ James Madison

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).

~ Richard Baxter

Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of any par­ticular vote. When he is merely one of millions, the individual elector feels himself to be impotent, a neg­ligible quantity. The candidates he has voted into office are far away, at the top of the pyramid of power. Theoretically they are the servants of the people; but in fact it is the servants who give orders and the peo­ple, far off at the base of the great pyramid, who must obey.

~ Aldous Huxley

My colleague and I are journalists. ... Not of the muckraking variety, I hasten to assure you! Corruption is a necessary and time-honored concomitant of any functioning government, which we support wholeheartedly.

~ Michael Swanwick

News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.

~ Steven Magee

Computers are one of the products in the USA that appear to be unregulated by the government which leaves consumers unprotected from flawed devices.

~ Steven Magee

The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.

~ Steven Magee

In India, all along, development as a process was always affected from the top down style of functioning. Naturally, because along with our freedom we had inherited a bureaucracy, which was designed by the British to rule, not to serve. The British way of doing things had always been to get things done through a government department and after independence we Indians merely continued this system.

~ Verghese Kurien

Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate liberation.

~ Steven Magee

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

~ Alex Stein

If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for.

~ Elizabeth Warren

I am a hero! Are you? - Chris

~ Yanan Melo

Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.

~ Verghese Kurien

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a democracy.

~ A.e. Samaan

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.

~ A.e. Samaan

Chris. What do you want, child?I sighed and walked another three steps forward. I stared into his eyes and spoke the one word that terrified him, Democracy.

~ Yanan Melo

I desire a society which selects its rulers from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government itself--whether it be the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, or the proletariat. For government by any class is fatal to the welfare of the whole

~ Rafael Sabatini

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

~ A.e. Samaan

The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people.

~ Owen Jones

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

~ A.e. Samaan