Quotes tagged with 'government'

When people become educated, you can't control them, you can't frighten them. People who are educated know their own power and don't surrender it to others.
—Jordan Maxwell freedom government

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be lead to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H. L. Mencken government

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
—H. L. Mencken government

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
—H. L. Mencken government

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
—H. L. Mencken government

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
—H. L. Mencken government

If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.
—Javier Milei economics government

You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when no one wants you to answer it.
—Josephus Miller / The Expanse (James S.A. Corey) government life

Distributed responsibility is the problem. One person gives the order, another carries it out. One can say they didn’t pull the trigger, the other that they were just doing what they were told, and everyone lets themselves off the hook.
—Joesphus Miller / The Expanse (James S.A. Corey) government

Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.
—L. E. Modesitt Jr. government

Voting in a democracy makes you feel powerful, much as playing the lottery makes you feel rich.
—Mencius Moldbug government

And once you are awake, you shal remain awake eternally.
—Frederick Nietsche government

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
—Friedrich Nietzsche government

I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
—Grover Norquist government

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
—P. J. O’rouke government

You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
—P. J. O’rourke government

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
—George Orwell freedom government liberty

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
—George Orwell / Nineteen Eighty-Four government

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
—George Orwell / Nineteen Eighty-Four government

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
—George Orwell / Nineteen Eighty-Four government