Quotes tagged with 'government'

Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.
—Zbigniew Brzeziński education government life

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
—William S. Burroughs government

What causes poverty? Nothing. It's the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is what causes poverty?
—Per Bylund government

The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
—George Carlin government

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.
—George Carlin government philosophy

The word 'bipartisan' means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.
—George Carlin government

Political correctness is nothing more than fascism pretending to be manners.
—George Carlin government

Anything you're not allowed to ask questions about, is something you should be asking more questions about.
—Tucker Carlson government

Historically, when a nation reaches the final stages of decline, the inmates often take over control of the asylum. We are witnessing the rebirth of that eventuality in the present era.
—Doug Casey / International Man government

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides the pig likes it.
—Cyrus Ching government life

If you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.
—Noam Chomsky government

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
—Noam Chomsky government

I am a "conspiracy theorist". I believe men and women of wealth and power conspire. If you don't think so, then you are what is called "an idiot". If you believe stuff but fear the label, you are what is called "a coward".
—Dave Collum freedom government

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
—Henry Steele Commager government

Politics and crime are the same thing.
—Michael Corleone / The Godfather government

Among many pernicious notions of our time, perhaps the most dangerous is the idea, sometimes implied and sometimes expressed, that life is more or less a lottery. That we are less masters of our fate than corks floating in a sea of luck. Or, even more absurd, that most of us are victims of some kind, and therefore in desperate need of others to protect us against a world of predators and against our own gullibility.
—Mitch Daniels / ex-governor of Indiana freedom government life

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
—Michel De Montaigne freedom government

The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.
—Thomas Di Lorenzo government

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison
—Fyodor Dostoevsky government

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
—Sir arthur Conan Doyle / Sherlock Holmes government life