Government Quote by B. F. Skinner Download Open image “A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.” — B. F. Skinner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Government Inspirational Love Politics Power Source
The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation and regulation-of… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the… — Stephen Holmes Copy Share Image
In authoritarian societies, control over the production, distribution, and circulation is generally in the hands of the government, or what might be termed traditional… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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