Quotes about govern
government people support
[H]istory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith. Hugo Black
government criticism sanctuary
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press Hugo Black
government religion unions
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. Hugo Black
government wish normal
I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States. Hugo Chavez
government people limits
Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government? Hugo Chavez
government prison ifs
What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly. Hugo Chavez
government giving advice
Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually. Howard Warren Buffett
government investing mortgage
When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it. Howard Warren Buffett
government historical religion
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs. Howard Zinn
government profound people
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States. Howard Zinn
government beard united-states
Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their Constitutions are intended to serve these interests. Howard Zinn
government enemy important
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy. Howard Zinn
government taught murder
[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism. Howard Zinn
government white office
The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating ? - those are the things that determine what happens.... Howard Zinn
government people independence
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world. Howard Zinn
government justice mind
Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative of the national government or the politicians. They only respond to the power of social movements. Howard Zinn
government together bold-actions
There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress. Howard Zinn
government order white
Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans. Howard Zinn
government opponents dramatic
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions. Hannah Arendt
government tyrants political
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant. Hannah Arendt
government people politics
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments. Guy de Maupassant
government impunity
All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity. George Bernard Shaw
government insulting public-opinion
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. George Bernard Shaw
government class long
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice. George Bernard Shaw
government regulation way
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? Gale Norton
government preparation attention
The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments. Fredrik Bajer
government evil attention
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain? Frederick William Faber
government worked
Brockway has been like a government mule. We've worked him to death. But he's done well. And I tell you, he's benefiting from it. He's getting a lot of opportunities to get better and he is.
governor proposal though time
Even though the governor's proposal isn't everything we wanted, it's the first time a governor ever made a proposal like this.
government rejection
Everyone would know that it would also be a rejection of the government, so it could be a way out of the crisis.
government party political provide requisite state time
Every political party has the right to demonstrate, but at the same time I have requested the state government to provide requisite security, Pranab Mukherjee
government leaves spending third
So this leaves a third option: better calibrating government spending programs,
government hand others seize together
Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity, Bill Frist