Central government Quote by Ai Weiwei

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter…

— Stanley Milgram

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

— Norman Mailer

There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to…

— Richard M. Weaver

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all…

— James Hillman

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests…

— John F. Kennedy

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

— Joel Salatin

Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work…

— Anonymous

A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop…

— Robert Kennedy

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

— John P. Kotter

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

— Thomas Jefferson

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

— Cornelius Nepos

Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the…

— Hannah Arendt