Top 1200 Government And Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. . . . Today's government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day without any regard whatsoever for their content, thereby freeing government employees for more important responsibilities, such as not answering their phones.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

If you have conflicts, everything breaks down in society. Kids can't go to school. Basic health can't be looked after. Every aspect of society falls apart.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

Do you people not care about this bogus government shutdown garbage? Back in 2013 Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio, Republican, suggested the End Government Shutdowns Act. So the End Government Shutdowns Act introduced by Senator Portman, the bill, you know what this would have done? Well, the Democrats shot it down. The Democrats don't want to get rid of the weapon they have by threatening a government shutdown and knowing the Republicans are gonna get blamed for it.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

I want to work closely with the government but it doesn't mean I become so weak and just toe the government line.

Government shutdowns do not actually become what the term implies. Two-thirds of the government cannot shut down. We're only talking about the third of government that's discretionary spending, and even at that, nobody loses their jobs, and nobody loses their Thanksgiving turkey. The whole thing has resulted from the Republican Party thinking they bought the farm back in 1995.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space