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
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
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
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
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
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich. — Noam Chomsky 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
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
“Originally, governments had very limited functions. Their purpose was simply to “preserve and protect.” Then someone added “provide.” When governments began to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their… — David Stern Copy Share Image
Most governments want their citizens to be part of the financial system, to be productive citizens as a result of having access… — Dan Schulman 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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 is clear that the protective functions of workplace health and safety have transferred to the workers through the process of corporate… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Whether Canada ends up with one national government or two governments or 10 governments, the Canadian people will require less government no… — Stephen Harper 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
“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
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
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
History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There are no secrets anymore. The governments, the Chinese, the Americans, the Japanese, the Russians, just the governments alone can move right… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
“Governments don't protect people, people protect governments." "Order is organic, it can’t just be ordered up." "The more complexity, the more unpredictability… — Lawrence Samuels Copy Share Image
