G Quotes
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“Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.”
“Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.”
Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
“Governments lie to put people in jail that they do not like.”
“Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.”
“Governments may change, and opinions, and the very appearance of lands themselves, but the slowest thing to change is religion. What has once been associated with worship becomes holy in itself, and self-perpetuating, always built upon the foundation of mingled awe and attraction which the unknown has for the mind of man.”
Source: Personal geography: almost an autobiography
“Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just pose and act as if they know and walk through life and get away with it.”
“Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of us, we are activating miracles, adding to a spiritual ocean that in time will purify our planet of all vestiges of fear. Love alone can triumph over hate, and if we give it the chance, it will.”
“Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.”
“Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.”
“Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.”
Source: The New Science of Giambattista Vico
“Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.”
“Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people. Elections should just be a bi-product.”
“Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed.”
“Governments, nations, borders, they're all surface, they always have been. The real structure underlying it all is money, and the institutions which control it. Finance houses, banks, organised crime; if you drill down deep enough, it's all the same. Money has no nationality, no allegiance. While nations rise and fall, it remains the same. It's the most powerful polity of all.”
Source: Europe in Winter
“Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.”
“Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”
“Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they
suppress it.”
“Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.”
Source: The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More
“Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.”
“Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.”
“Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.”
“Governments predicate the call for war upon very terrible lies: that it will restrain evil men, make honest and courageous men out of boys, and the outcome depends upon the moral virtuousness of the combatants. Warfare is obscene, an evil waste of life, and a destroyer of civilization. Society can salvage no virtue or rectitude from the larger waste of destroying cities and killing people. There is no moral message deduced from warfare. All warfare is barbaric and inhuman.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.”
Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
“Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.”
Source: The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty
“Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.”
Source: The freedom philosophy
“Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)
“Governments rule people.
Thoughts rule the world.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Governments should be role models of leadership and improve the utilization of ICT in all the governmental departments in order to improve the efficiency of governmental services and motivate ICT industries.”
“governments should consider ways to shape these markets, rather than simply charge into battle to shut them down at any cost”
Source: Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
“Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!”
“Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.”
Source: The Chairman's Corner: Essays on Liberty from the Sovereign Individual
“Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.”
“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.”
“Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.”
“Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.”
“Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.”
“Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.”
“Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.”
“Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.”
Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens
“Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.”
“Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.”
“Governments will buy Bitcoin when it is 10 times more expensive than it is today.”
“Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.”
Source: Among the Enemy
“Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.”
“Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.”
“Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?”
“Governments,
whether they're dictatorships or democracies,
reflect the people.
When the people get fed up,
they throw them out.”
“Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.”