Abuse Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

— Henry David Thoreau

An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact of life…

— Noam Chomsky

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their…

— Aristotle

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

— Hannah Arendt

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable…

— Rebecca West

At the most basic level, if men have institutional power, they have tremendous influence to change those institutions.

— Meena Harris

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

— Herbert Spencer

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

— Victor Kiam

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to…

— Frank Herbert