No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths,…

— Steven Pinker

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“technological society has succeeded in multiplying occasions of pleasure, yet has found it very difficult to engender joy.”

— Pope Francis

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

— Pope Paul VI

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

— William Howard Taft

“The embassy bureaucrat responded that there was no problem with creating a system that did not work very well. He said the Afghan system…

— Douglas Grindle

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that…

— Matt Gonzalez

The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the evolutionary process for an ethic is simply this: quit thinking about decent land-use as solely…

— Land ethic

I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set…

— Barack Obama

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the…

— Tony Fernandes

“And, in fact, had Johnson’s plan succeeded, in many ways it would indeed have been “just the way it was.”

— Robert A. Caro

When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.

— Alexander Suvorov

“I didn’t fail 10,000 times. I succeeded 10,000 times in figuring out something that did not work.”

— Anonymous

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look…

— Dan Barber

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

— Ferdinand Piech