I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. —Martin Sheen More about this quote Tags: activism civil disobedience government personal change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: politics government criticism patriotism travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
With words we govern men. —Benjamin Disraeli More about this quote Tags: power words government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. —Harry S. Truman More about this quote Tags: politics government efficiency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: politics poverty government taxes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: politics risk danger wrong right government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. —Will Rogers More about this quote Tags: gratitude government taxes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. —Robert A. Heinlein More about this quote Tags: politics government universe sense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every government, whatever its form, character, or color — be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi, or Bolshevist — is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: politics change government conservatism Nazi monarchy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. —P.J. O'Rourke More about this quote Tags: life government trust foolishness luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: politics poverty government wealth rich people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK? —Molly Ivins More about this quote Tags: government traffic regulation libertarianism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good. —Katherine Anne Porter More about this quote Tags: evil good government cruelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Artists who whine because they need a grant and the government doesn't help them — well, tough shit. I had the same problem. I worked in a bookstore for seven years to make money to buy art supplies. And that was fine. I don't think artists should ever expect anything from anybody. For the artist, sacrifice and hardship are a part of the process. —Patti Smith More about this quote Tags: art government sacrifice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is supposed to be part of the American tradition that if we want to step out of line, we step out of line. Democracy isn't falling in line behind the president. Democracy is for people to think independently, be skeptical of government, look around and try to find out what's going on. And if they find out that government is deceiving them, to speak out as loudly as they can. —Howard Zinn More about this quote Tags: politics power democracy government protest America skepticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email