Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist.
Tags: government george 1984 big-brother george-orwell orwell
Roosevelt spoke eloquently, in his penetrating tenor, of those 'who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life . . . I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished,' he told the audience, '. . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Susan QuinnTags: progress government depression inauguration roosevelt wpa
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Calvin CoolidgeTags: law government governing
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.
Joseph SobranTags: politics activism liberal government conservative intervention extremist moderate
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
John SteinbeckTags: brotherhood-of-man government
The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.
Julian BarnesTags: politics government
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
Julian BarnesTags: politics patriotism government
Wir werden als abhängige Bürger geboren. Vom Moment unserer Geburt an sind wie Abhängige. Ein Zeichen dieser Abhängigkeit ist die Geburtsurkunde. [...] Entweder erhälst du die staatliche Urkunde [...], was dir zu einer Identität verhilft, die dem Staat während deines Lebens ermöglicht, dich zu identifizieren und im auge zu behalten (dich aufzuspüren); oder du kommst ohne eine Identität aus und verdammst dich selbst, wie ein Tier außerhalb des Staats zu leben (Tiere haben keine Personalausweise).
J.M. CoetzeeTags: power identity government authority
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Thomas PaineTags: government king monarchy
I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: politics liberty government
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