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 Templet

Mots clés politics government pacifism



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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 Templet

Mots clés politics corruption government



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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 Templet

Mots clés politics satire government



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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 Ali

Mots clés god democracy religion government islam muslim holy-book



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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 Fforde

Mots clés reading war government diplomacy free-press



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Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.

Otto von Bismarck

Mots clés government learning-from-mistakes



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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. Dick

Mots clés future power government totalitarianism fascism nazism german psychosis 1962



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I know the police cause you trouble
They cause trouble everywhere
But when you die and go to heaven
You find no policeman there

Woody Guthrie

Mots clés social-commentary government hobos police-brutality



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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 Pratchett

Mots clés democracy vote government



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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 Jefferson

Mots clés education government jefferson



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