Plato Quotes, Government Quotes, Lust Quotes

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Government Quotes

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War Quotes , Government Quotes

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

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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.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Religious Quotes , Government Quotes

The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Believe Quotes , Government Quotes

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Government Quotes , Ordinary Quotes

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Government Quotes

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Government Quotes , Liberty Quotes

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Believe Quotes , Government Quotes

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

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Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Rights Quotes , Government Quotes

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Government Quotes , Sight Quotes

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes