Chaos Quote by Robert Bolt

“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians.…

— Henry T. Blackaby

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

— Anonymous

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these…

— Mark Twain

The conscience of a people is their power.

— John Dryden

A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous…

— Thucydides

Duty of a citizen to the defective state is betraying it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens.

— Ilkin Santak

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The world has changed to permit ever more people in all corners of the globe to cooperate to their mutual betterment. The very prospect…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“When conscience is immobilised, public trust has disappeared. At that point, by default, institutions become omnipotent.”

— Raymond Dirks