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Anthony Burgess

But when the social entity grows large, becomes a megalopolis, a state, a federation, then the governing machine grows remote, impersonal, even inhuman. It takes money from us for purposes we do not seem to sanction; it treats us as abstract statistics; it controls an army; it supports a police force whose function does not always appear to be protective.

government, politics

Anthony Burgess

The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it.

government, politics

Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay

I went on to explain that it is an honour, and also that we need a transport policy.”If by ‘we’ you mean Britain, that’s perfectly true,” he acknowledged. “But if by ‘we’ you mean you and me and this Department, we need a transport policy like an aperture in the cranial cavity.

government, politics

In nepotism, when a doctor is appointed to do the job of an engineer, and an engineer is appointed to do the job of a lawyer, you know there’s bound to be failure in the system

government, politics

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

government, politics

William Faulkner

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

government, politics

The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and right – I think the important question is between the industrial society and the earth-based society. And I say that because I believe that capitalism and communism are really much more about how the wealth is distributed, if it trickles down or is appropriated at the beginning to those who have worked for it. But, you know, someone has to question where the wealth came from. What right does society have to the wealth? What is the relationship between that society and the land from which it got its wealth? Those are the questions that should be asked.

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Peter J. Carroll

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

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The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

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Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

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William Jennings Bryan

Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children’s richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?

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I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.

government, politics