Authority, Government

"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."

Laurence J. Peter "The Peter Principle"

Authority, Government

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern."

Tony Benn

Authority, Government

Education

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case."

Ken Kesey

Authority, Government

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."

William Ewart Gladstone

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have."

P.J. O`Rourke

Authority, Government

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself."

Robert E. Lee

Authority, Government

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If government were a product, selling it would be illegal."

P.J. O`Rourke

Authority, Government

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A leader is one who does not care about his rank and role but remains always responsive to lead, shoulder responsibility, and achieve the goal in such a way that everyone, in and outside the team, respects him for touching their revered souls."

Anuj Somany

Authority, Government

Talent and Genius

Rating: 9.11 (Number of Voters: 9)

"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."

Charles Bukowski

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants."

William Penn

Authority, Government

God and Religion

Rating: 9.13 (Number of Voters: 8)

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."

Hubert Humphrey

Authority, Government

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

Edward R. Murrow

Authority, Government

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

Ansel Adams

Authority, Government

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."

Chester Bowles

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

Irving Kristol

Authority, Government

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

Thomas Jefferson

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."

Alan Corenk

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."

Laurence J. Peter

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."

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Authority, Government

Various

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

Will Rogers

Authority, Government

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Taxpayer: A government worker with no vacation, no sick leave and no holidays."

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Authority, Government

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"... the great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Authority, Government

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 7.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."

Edward Gibbon "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think."

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Authority, Government

Intellect, Judgement

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."

Aung San Suu Kyi

Authority, Government

Courage and Fear

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Authority, Government

Various

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent."

Henry Louis Mencken "Minority Report: H.L. Mencken`s Notebooks"

Authority, Government

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Government: a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

George Washington

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Edward Dahlberg

Authority, Government

Good and Evil

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Being prime minister is a lonely job.... you cannot lead from the crowd."

Margaret Thatcher "The Downing Street Years"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long."

Boris Yeltsin

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."

Art Buchwald (b. 1925), U.S. humorist

Authority, Government

Various

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people."

Charlie Chaplin "The Great Dictator"

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Authority, Government

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done."

Peter Drucker

Authority, Government

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."

Pierre Corneille "Nicomede"

Authority, Government

Marriage

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."

George Burns

Authority, Government

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Sartre-Jean-Paul

Authority, Government

Good and Evil

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."

Doug Larson

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 7.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."

John Ruskin

Authority, Government

Education

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings."

Sarah M. Grimke "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"

Authority, Government

History and Nations

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every country has the government it deserves."

Joseph de Maistre "Lettres et Opuscules Inedits"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you."

Themistocles

Authority, Government

Family and Loneliness

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes."

Mogens Jallberg

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)