The only way to eliminate any government choice on what art is worthwhile, what art isn't worthwhile, is to get the government… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
The danger is that the cruel arts of their oppressors have enchained their minds, have kept them in the ignorance of children,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals… — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I currently perform the most important political duties an American has the responsibility to perform - I experiment in self-government on a… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The American government has spent a lot of money trying to reclaim, for example, the Everglades, and to allow the natural vegetation… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The government has no business knowing how much money we make and how we made it. It's none of their business. And… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The truth is that very few newspapers in the country are willing to do a fair and impartial investigation into the shenanigans… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
I would like to think that I have followed in the proper tradition of attorneys-general, providing good quality advice to my colleagues… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As many of my colleagues know, TikTok, like other Chinese companies is required under Chinese law to share information with the government… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but… — Rob Hopkins Copy Share Image
Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I can't possibly put myself in his [Tony Blair's] shoes and be inside his head but what I can say is that… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image