Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Governments that fail to provide jobs to those who are willing and able to work begin to lose their legitimacy and will… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I want to tell governments and courts, 'Give orders that can be implemented.' They should not give orders that work to break… — Amit Shah Copy Share Image
Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them… — William Penn Copy Share Image
What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Governments and their hired negotiators are designing the supranational rules and pressing for their adoption and for compliance - and the US… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Global governments should start seriously talking about the creation of a World Tax Authority with the mission to ensure that tax systems… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies.… — Irwin Winkler Copy Share Image
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide… — Kit Bond Copy Share Image
Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it. — Randy Gage Copy Share Image
The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Regime is made up of people, so I do put faces to regimes and governments, so I feel that all human beings… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone. — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits… — George Jonas Copy Share Image
Nations are not built by governments alone. The government can at best be a facilitator, and a trigger for society's innate entrepreneurial… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
I believe the quickest and most sure way to reduce poverty, raise living standards and create jobs around the world is to… — Elliott Bisnow Copy Share Image
“The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“until you see other governments and systems, you don’t realize that our system based on biblical principals is the best “man can… — Warren Frankel Copy Share Image
Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by… — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
“The greatest mistake a people can make is to hesitate even for a single second to overthrow a greedy government that cares… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history,… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I think we live in a country that sometimes forgets how effective the rule of law is, perhaps because our governments have… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
