Top 1200 Totalitarian Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. ... The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Government grows despite repeated failures to serve the public well because government's purpose no longer is to serve the public. Government now serves primarily the interests of those who work for the government.

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

It's very important that the government is close to the business community and that we understand their concerns. But at some point, the government needs to be a government.

There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

Islam is according to me, my party, not so much a religion as well as it is a totalitarian ideology.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an important reason why many earlier liberals, like Henry Simons, writing at a time when government was small by today's standards, were willing to have government undertake activities that today's liberals would not accept now that government has become so overgrown.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

The government adoption of AI will not bring about a government being run by robots. Instead, our government will continue to be run by people, with help from algorithms dramatically improving government services for all Americans.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

[The government involvement in the economy] is so overwhelming and beyond anything we have ever seen, that we risk moving this country away from a government of the people to a government of the regulators.

A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

We Conservatives believe not in big, interventionist, centralized government. But in small and limited government, government as close to the people as possible.

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.

When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

A government that can take all and can seize all, a government that doesn't trust its citizens, a government that says it's their way or the highway... that's the scary part.

The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

If we don't want intrusive government, then we need to care for the least among us so that they are not exploited as a reason by the government for bigger government.

The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion, it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.

That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof.

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people; before you have a government you must have the people. Without the people there can be no government. The government must be, therefore, an expression of the will of the people.

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements.

We gotta get Fannie and Freddie out of government ownership. It makes no sense that these are owned by the government and have been controlled by the government for as long as they have.

It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.

The way that things happen in Egypt, the government - or the head of the government - don't get personally involved. They were always goonies and agents and people who do that kind of work for the government either by direct instructions or because they think that they're doing something good or they want to be on the good side of the government.

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.