Distrust Quote by Garry Wills Download Open image ““Inefficiency is to be our safeguard against despotism.”” — Garry Wills ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distrust Productivity Separation of powers Us constitution Us government
“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.” — Junius Copy Share Image
“The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.” — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.” — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
“the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“The common belief that everyone can do anything if they just try hard enough is a formula for inefficiency at best and for complete… — W.J. King Copy Share Image
“it is impossible for a free people to govern a dependent people despotically without endangering its own freedom.” — John Fiske Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality of incompetence.” — Raymond Hull Copy Share Image
“We each have the choice in any setting to step back and let go of the mindset of scarcity. Once we let go of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms,… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On one thing, at least, men & women both agree: They both distrust women. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots.… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
