A Quote by Kakha Bendukidze

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

Kakha Bendukidze

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Kakha Bendukidze
Georgian - Statesman
April 20, 1956 - November 13, 2014

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

Mick Farren

For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

Deena Metzger

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

Paul Krugman

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

A. D. Coleman

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Bashar al-Assad

You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

Sarah Rees Brennan

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

Frank Smythe

Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

Laozi

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

Pierre Trudeau

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

Lawrence S. Wittner

Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.

Calvin Coolidge

The Seoul city government has been cooperating with the central government to stabilize the housing market, and we plan to brainstorm all possible ways with the government to better counter the issue.

Park Won-soon

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.