“I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.” I CanGovernmentTasteCheese Author:John Scalzi
“There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.” WorldRealGovernmentForceVoiceTasteVariousGossipReal World Author:Alice Oswald
“What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.” IfsEndsStatesGovernmentRunningChurchDoorsTasteWineBreadWhat IfThickSourHowl Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.” NeedsArtHandsGovernmentCertainEvilNationsResultsPovertyFashionDangerousPrideIndustryTasteBenefitsSpringInfiniteConvincedVanityNeglectLazinessPoliteness Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they have no right to interfere with his concerns.” MenFirstsMayLongGovernmentWifeOughtCitizensTasteConscienceConcernAffectionNeighborSuitsInterfere Author:Lydia M. Child
“The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.” PeopleGovernmentActionBeliefGroupsTastePolicePrivilegedCrowAffirmative ActionAffirmativeJim CrowPolice Power Author:Charles A. Murray
“Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.” ShouldGovernmentOrderCoursesPaySilenceDemocracyCitizensTasteCorporationsContributionEthicalWagesSecrecyTotalityCopyrightContribution To Society Author:John Ralston Saul
“The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.” GovernmentIndividualSituationFashionTasteInstitutionsArrangements Book:Knowledge And Decisions Source: Knowledge And Decisions