For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. —Bob Wells More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Bob Wells Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. —Bob Wells More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. —Bob Wells More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “government” While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: poverty government wealth redistribution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I have a friend who has devoted most of his adult life to resisting the madness of war through actions of justice and peace. He . . . lives in poverty so as to stay below the taxation level. . . . The money he "should" have given the government over the years he has donated to peace-and-justice projects. Does he have any results to show for his efforts? Has he been effective? Hardly — at least, not by the normal calculus. His years of commitment to peacemaking have been years of steady increase in wars and rumors of wars. So how does he stay healthy and sane? How does he maintain a commitment to this sort of active life? "I have never asked myself if I was being effective," he says, "but only if I was being faithful." He judges his action not by the results it gets, but by its fidelity to his own calling and identity. —Parker J. Palmer More about this quote Tags: justice war peace identity poverty government faith calling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is horrifying that we have to fight our government to save the environment. —Ansel Adams More about this quote Tags: government fight environment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: poverty government wealth redistribution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have a friend who has devoted most of his adult life to resisting the madness of war through actions of justice and peace. He . . . lives in poverty so as to stay below the taxation level. . . . The money he "should" have given the government over the years he has donated to peace-and-justice projects. Does he have any results to show for his efforts? Has he been effective? Hardly — at least, not by the normal calculus. His years of commitment to peacemaking have been years of steady increase in wars and rumors of wars. So how does he stay healthy and sane? How does he maintain a commitment to this sort of active life? "I have never asked myself if I was being effective," he says, "but only if I was being faithful." He judges his action not by the results it gets, but by its fidelity to his own calling and identity. —Parker J. Palmer More about this quote Tags: justice war peace identity poverty government faith calling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is horrifying that we have to fight our government to save the environment. —Ansel Adams More about this quote Tags: government fight environment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email