Government Quote by Brian Crozier

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political…

— Leonard Cohen

“Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up…

— Simon Reynolds

“In the second stage, once those who oppose the status quo succeed in weakening the authority of the existing order, they are able to…

— Christopher L. Hayes

“The executive possesses means of distracting Parliament from its proper function; it seduces members by the offer of places and pensions, by retaining them…

— J.G.A. Pocock

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

— Fareed Zakaria

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

“If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also “voluntary” on the…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“for the last fifteen years we have been under the control of an entirely new complex, far more powerful and far more pervasive. I…

— Michael Crichton

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

— Henry Giroux

When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.

— Rick Wilson

“All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract,…

— George Washington