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If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.
— Henry Ford
Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
— Bertolt Brecht
Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
— Herbert Hoover
It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
— Catherynne M Valente
It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
— Svetlana Alliluyeva
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
— Margaret Mead
I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.
— Narendra Modi
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
— Thomas P. Campbell
Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this
— Lee Kuan Yew
Amazon is actually like Google and Facebook. Just another source to collect information for Governments, CIA and Private Investors.
— Daniel Marques
Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.
— Steven Magee
If Governments Promote The Principles Of The Kingdom, Then We Will See An Established Society
— Sunday Adelaja
All governments are corrupt and only thing that varies between them is the level of corruption.
— Steven Magee
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
— Bruce Jackson
Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.
— Henry Bonilla
Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.
— Taylor Caldwell
SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Governments are the deadliest terrorist organizations that have ever existed if body count means anything.
— Bryant McGill
Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.
— Brian Herbert
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
— Terence McKenna
Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
— Vandana Shiva
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
— Joseph Conrad
Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
— R. H. Tawney
When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.
— David Bonderman
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
— Jonathan Sacks
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
— Lester B. Pearson
It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.
— David Ignatius
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
— Paul Samuelson
The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.
— Steven Magee
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
— Woodrow Wilson
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
— Alexander Hamilton
Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
— Bryant McGill
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
— Lawrence Lessig
In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production
— Ludwig Von Mises
Bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world ...
— Terry Pratchett
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
— Lysander Spooner
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
— Richard Stallman
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
— Thomas Jefferson
I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.
— George Galloway
The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
— Henry A. Kissinger
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
— Henry Mintzberg
A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
— Antonio Banderas
Anyway I don't think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
— Angela Y. Davis
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.
— William J. Federer
If you want to be watched by governments, all you have to do is tell people that you research radiation.
— Steven Magee
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.
— Gouverneur Morris
If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.
— John Templeton
An hereditary aristocracy ... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
— Thomas Jefferson
Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?
— Manal Al-Sharif
If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
— George Bernard Shaw
I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.
— George Osborne
If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be just too great.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
— Benjamin Disraeli
More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
— Albert Bushnell Hart
Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.
— Lysander Spooner
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
— Terry Pratchett
In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance
— James Madison
So many women don't have voices in their governments.
— Sarah Gavron
Governments are scared of software.
— Jon Evans
The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad ...
— Frank Zappa
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
— Elbert Hubbard
Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
— Martha Gellhorn
the removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic
— Walter Isaacson
Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.
— Henry W. Kendall
Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments.
— James Morcan
One day the people of the world will want peaceso much that the governments will have to get out
of their way and give it to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.
— Benjamin Franklin
The state was made for man, not man for state.
— Albert Einstein
'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
— Emma Goldman
Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
— Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
— Wendell Phillips
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
— Benjamin Franklin