Disappear Quote by Lawrence Lessig

The very nature of paradise is that it will be lost.

— Melissa Coleman

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

The generosity of spirit that is usually shown by advanced democracies disappears when the public feel two things: that their government is not in…

— Damian Green

The only possible paradises are those we have lost

— Marcel Proust

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

— Robert Kennedy

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

— Herbert Hoover

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time…

— John McDonnell

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered,…

— Lord Acton

“The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerful forces to keep such a…

— Rebecca Solnit

The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only…

— Garrison Keillor

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.

— Steven Erikson

Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them.…

— Calvin Coolidge