Century Quote by Bruce Sterling

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 free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the…

— Yaakov Malkin

“As it became impossible to believe in the morality of the Soviet Union, a shrinking contingent of true believers shifted their devotions, first to…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“But democrats are seldom welcome on planets run by totalitarian governments, and scarcely more welcome on planets where anarchy prevails--this is due to the…

— Christopher Stasheff

“Corporate governments have a long and established history of not prosecuting government officials that have been involved in blatant frauds.”

— Steven Magee

Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business…

— Naveen Jain

Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of modern warfare…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed

— Bernard Berenson

The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they…

— Sam Graves

If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.

— Suharto

I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.

— Bill Hicks

The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will…

— Harry S. Truman

“In the conditions of this “New World Order,” a crucial part of the contemporary world economy is a criminal economy, in which the excess…

— Todor Bombov

The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian…

— E. O. Wilson

Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be…

— Aldous Huxley