Authority Quote by Katharina Zell

We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency.

— Mo Ibrahim

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

— G. Edward Griffin

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at…

— George Washington

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be…

— Charles Albert Gobat

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for…

— Barton Gellman

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and…

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate…

— Benjamin Tucker

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin…

— David Cameron

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

— Lysander Spooner

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…

— Aristotle

The governments are seen to be less effective than they used to be. The private sector is perceived as being so much more efficient,…

— Mary Robinson

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

— Suharto