Top 1200 Government And Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

Our society has become an employee society.

Our work should be a reflection of society, and if you're not concerned with including all of society, then I don't really know what you're doing making art in the first place.

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

All this anti-Christian rhetoric that you see coming from the government, all this anti-Christian push, is not really an attack on Christianity. It's an effort to make you realize that God is your government. Your government is God.

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

I think it's incredibly important to vote because politics is for the people, and we shouldn't leave it just to the parties because then we're in some kind of helpless society where you have no say in anything and in things that are going to affect you. Government was formed to represent the people, but if you don't vote, then you're not being represented.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in many ways, represents the conscience of society in terms of engaging standards that we need to live by.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

We have a government-to-government relationship with tribes, and they should have that opportunity to weigh in on important decisions that affect them.

If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that.

Paul Ryan says he's for smaller government, and he's funded every big government idea that there is.

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

I visited the Ethiopian National Project which was created by the government to fully integrate Ethiopian Jews into Israel's society. They're still facing a lot of challenges with poverty, unemployment but the Ethiopian National Project is really doing an extraordinary job in empowering the Ethiopian community to be successful.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.

I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people taking healthcare from the government, but I don't think government should give it.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State.

In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good.

I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we would call infrastructure spending, government appropriation for canals, railroads, river and harbor improvements, and a tariff to protect industry. He believed in this market revolution that was sweeping across Northern society. He himself benefited from it in his own life.

Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.

Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?