Quotes tagged with 'government'

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns –the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
—Donald Rumsfeld government philosophy

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
—Salman Rushdie government

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw government

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
—Tom Smoothers government

'Politics', the art of convincing decent people to forget the lesser of two evils is also evil.
—Edward Snowden government

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.
—Edward Snowden freedom government life

Do we want to live in a society where we live totally naked in front of government, and they are totally opaque to us?
—Edward Snowden government

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them
—Edward Snowden freedom government

I don’t want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.
—Edward Snowden government life

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
—Edward Snowden government

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different that saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
—Edward Snowden freedom government

War is a place where young people who don't know each other and don't hate each other kill each other, by the decision of old people who know each other and hate each other, but don't kill each other.
—Unknown Soldier / Definition of War government war

We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn government

Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired
virtues under its new name Social Justice.
—Thomas Sowell freedom government life

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-anything except reason.
—Thomas Sowell conspiracy education government

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
—Thomas Sowell government

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
—Thomas Sowell government

What exactly is your 'fair share of what 'someone else' has worked for?
—Thomas Sowell government

Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?
—Thomas Sowell freedom government

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.
—Wole Soyinka freedom government