Governments Quotes · Page 7

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

— Yasheng Huang

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

— Maggie Gallagher

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

— Will Rogers

“Hookers and governments they are both whores. Hookers sell their own body and governments, the poor people’s.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.”

— Steven Magee

“Governments never react well, but they always over-react very well.”

— Marc Rainer

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

— Jose Saramago

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who…

— Lysander Spooner

SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

— Baruch Spinoza

I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments,…

— Amartya Sen

Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at…

— James Carville

There is no more reason to believe that Bitcoin will stand the test of time than that governments will protect the value…

— Paul Singer

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under…

— H. L. Mencken

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and…

— Rudolph Rummel

By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go…

— Heather Brooke

Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled…

— Natalia Ginzburg

There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for…

— Daniel Pauly

Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where…

— Noreena Hertz

“Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible…

— David Hume

It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors…

— Graydon Carter

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

— Thomas Paine

Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government.

— Jan Tinbergen

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

— Richard Cobden

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

— Tim Roth

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

— Abba Eban

Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.

— Alfred North Whitehead

A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.

— Peter Hitchens

The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.

— Mo Ibrahim

“Protestors can have a big impact but, in the end, it’s governments that reshape the world.”

— Anonymous

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

— Edward Abbey

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

— George Orwell

“Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.”

— William J Federer

Governments cannot do innovation. There are too many audits, and no one stays in a role for long enough.

— Ajay Piramal

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

— George Osborne

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

— Robert A. Heinlein

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

— Andrew Forrest