Government is essentially immoral.

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and…

— Herbert Spencer

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

— Sinclair Lewis

“As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the negation of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises

In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return those records to…

— Ryan Shapiro

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

— George Santayana

For some reason, I don't like the term 'model-turned-actress' - which is what I am, essentially.

— Stephanie Corneliussen

Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.

— Ludwig von Mises

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal…

— Eugene Mirman

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless…

— Barry Diller

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.

— Tom Peters

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

— George Robinson

I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band.

— Curt Smith