W Quotes
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“When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.”
“When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.”
“When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.”
“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.”
“When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!”
“When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.”
“When government institutions hold more lunatics than mental institutions, know that, there's something clinically wrong with this world.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat to his well-being and safety. The power which control of the money system gives to government to interfere in and direct and even take the life of the individual should not exist on this earth. No man or group of men is warranted in holding this terrible power over fellow men.”
“When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.”
“When government limits its force only to preventing people from imposing harm on each other, people have the maximum ability to cooperate. It is from cooperation, not coercion, that human society flourishes.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.”
“When government regulators rarely regulate, you end up with lawless industries.”
“When government regulators rarely regulate, you end up with many risk takers.”
“When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.”
“When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen are all of the property, business, and jobs that would have been created if citizens were left with the right to choose.”
Source: The Chairman's Corner: Essays on Liberty from the Sovereign Individual
“When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.”
“When government works, it is usually because the chief understands the fabric of power, threading the needle where policy and politics converge.”
Source: The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
“When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience.”
“When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.”
“When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.”
“When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.”
“When governments control everything, your perceived or glorified wealth is just an illusion. Attaining true generational wealth requires working rules of law, disaster-proof property rights, and assets that the constituted authority can't just take away. Until you have these, you are still at the mercy of the system - and, it was created to put you in check whenever you want to have a contrary opinion.”
Source: Mastering the Crypto World: Understanding and Trading Cryptocurrencies for Profits
“When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they risk delegitimizing not just their systems of justice, but the legitimacy of the government itself. Because when they bring political charges against people for acts that were clearly at least intended to work in the public interest, they deny them the opportunity to mount a public-interest defense.”
“When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens”
“When governments talk of truth and reconciliation, and then push unwanted infrastructure projects, please remember this: There can be no truth unless we admit to the 'why' behind centuries of abuse and land theft. And there can be no reconciliation when the crime is still in progress.
Only when we have the courage to tell the truth about our old stories will the new stories arrive to guide us. Stories that recognize that the natural world and all its inhabitants have limits. Stories that teach us how to care for each other and regenerate life within those limits. Stories that put an end to the myth of endlessness once and for all.”
Source: On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
“When governments tax the people, it's an attempt to control the means of production. They don't need the money, they're printing it anyway. They need the labor.”
“When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.”
“When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."”
“When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.”
“When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.”
Source: New Testament Commentary: Philippians
“When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.”
“When grace-filled relationships are the greatest joy in life, the artificial high that addictions bring lose their pull. Grace is not just something “nice.” It is essential for a healthy brain and life-giving relationships.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“When grace finds you, you will not boast about it, but glorify God for it.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“When grace governs the heart, the soul rests in quiet harmony and abiding peace.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.”
“When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.”
Source: Grace Happens Here: You Are Standing Where Grace is Happening
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“When grace moves in... guilt moves out”
“When Gran finally came home she stepped into the house and wept. She grabbed Sophie and I to her and cried, “Oh my dears…” and though Gran was usually a harsh woman and we were uncomfortable with her affection, we were grateful for it this day. In the months she was gone we realized she was what held us all together. Broken or not, crazy or not—Gran kept us and made us a family. Truly she did.”
“When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.”
“When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?”
“When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.”
“When Grandma read me:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall . . .
I never
knew
that
Humpty's
fall
was
something
that
someday
comes
to
us
all.”
Source: Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life
“When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.”
“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.”
“When Granny was headed for some far-off place, you could only be sure of one thing: that it was a place everyone else was trying to get away from. And if anyone asked her why she was doing it, she'd answer, "I'm a doctor, for God's sake, and ever since I became one I've not allowed myself the luxury of choosing whose life I should be saving.”
Source: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“When Grant Blue reaches me, he bends his head down close enough that I can smell the soap and promise on his skin. Clean living and popularity—It’s quite the aftershave, let me tell you. If I’m being honest, the fact that he even has to bend to talk to me is making me want to swoon a little. ...But just a little.”
Source: Promiscuous
“When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart,
that man is well-nigh hopeless.”
“When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)