Authority, Government

"Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."

Mary McCarthy "On the Contrary"

Authority, Government

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."

John Updike

Authority, Government

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."

Gail Sheehy

Authority, Government

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."

John Updike "Buchanan Dying"

Authority, Government

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Authority, Government

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation."

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Authority, Government

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams."

Thomas Carlyle "History of the French Revolution"

Authority, Government

History and Nations

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I am a free citizen."

George Bernard Shaw "Arms and the Man"

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

Salman Rushdie

Art and Culture

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in."

graffito, London, 70's

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."

William Penn "Some Fruits of Solitude"

Authority, Government

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky."

Boris Yeltsin

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself."

William Pitt the Elder

Authority, Government

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both."

George Bernard Shaw "Misalliance"

Authority, Government

Law and Crime

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

William Penn "No Cross, No Crown"

Authority, Government

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power."

Andrew Jackson

Authority, Government

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do."

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

History and Nations

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"An illiterate king is a crowned ass."

English Proverbs

Authority, Government

Education

Rating: 2.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like."

Jules Mazarin

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."

Ronald Reagan

Authority, Government

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man."

John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."

Benjamin Franklin

Authority, Government

Law and Crime

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Whoever is new to power is always harsh."

Aeschylus "Prometheus Bound"

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Time and Passing

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers."

Voltaire "Voltaire's Notebooks"

Authority, Government

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley "Beyond the Mexique Bay"

Authority, Government

History and Nations

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The happiness of society is the end of government."

John Adams "Thoughts on Government"

Authority, Government

Happiness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

John Adams "The Works of John Adams"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Authority forgets a dying king."

Alfred Tennyson "Idylls of the King"

Authority, Government

Life and Death

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."

Voltaire "Philosophical Dictionary"

Authority, Government

Richness and Money

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum."

P.J. O`Rourke "Parliament of Whores"

Authority, Government

History and Nations

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

P.J. O`Rourke "Parliament of Whores"

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Rating: 1.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."

P.J. O`Rourke "Parliament of Whores"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us."

P.J. O`Rourke "Parliament of Whores"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."

P.J. O`Rourke "Parliament of Whores"

Authority, Government

Rating: 2.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."

Fidel Castro

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."

Henry Brooks Adams "The Education of Henry Adams"

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point."

Winston Churchill

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."

Casey Stengel

Authority, Government

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."

Laurence J. Peter

Authority, Government

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife."

Greek Proverbs

Authority, Government

Marriage

Richness and Money

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion."

Scottish Proverbs

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Patriotism

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."

Wendell Phillips

Authority, Government

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Authority, Government

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."

Herbert Hoover

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

James Callaghan

Authority, Government

Courage and Fear

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."

Erich Fromm

Authority, Government

Law and Crime

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)