Politics Quote by Bernard Berenson Download Open image “Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed” — Bernard Berenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Politics Taxation
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
No government can continue good, but under the control of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.” — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil 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
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna 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. 2. Man-made wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. 3. Exposure to man-made electricity. 4. Eclipsing of the Sun by the International Space Station (ISS), satellites, airplanes and jet aircraft contrails (chemtrails). 5. Eating food forced grown using… — Steven Magee Copy Share
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband 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
“Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share