If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?
Michelle TempletStichwörter: politics government pacifism
One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable.
Michelle TempletStichwörter: politics corruption government
General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one's government is saying is a lie.
Michelle TempletStichwörter: politics satire government
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
Ayaan Hirsi AliStichwörter: god democracy religion government islam muslim holy-book
Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.
Jasper FfordeStichwörter: reading war government diplomacy free-press
Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.
Otto von BismarckStichwörter: government learning-from-mistakes
Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And—how many of us do know it?
Philip K. DickStichwörter: future power government totalitarianism fascism nazism german psychosis 1962
I know the police cause you trouble
They cause trouble everywhere
But when you die and go to heaven
You find no policeman there
Stichwörter: social-commentary government hobos police-brutality
Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away.
Terry PratchettStichwörter: democracy vote government
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...
Thomas JeffersonStichwörter: education government jefferson
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