Governing Quotes

“All the governments on our planet are failing because they’re run by people who don’t have the best intentions in mind for the population, not because they’re capitalistic, socialistic, etc. At some point people will realize that these labels stand for nothing, and it will be like waking up from a dream. A bad dream where label-maker devices are running after people like monsters.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“…perverts around the world will also band together to capture the military in their respective countries. In those reactionary countries in which the deviates seem to be having some trouble in gaining control, we will send aid to them as rebels to help them in toppling their governments. When we have at last overthrown all existing governments, the world will enjoy not war but global orgies conducted with the utmost protocol and the most truly international spirit, for these people do transcend simple national differences.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not.”
― steven redhead, The Solution

“As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.”
― Byron Goines, The 2014 Midterm Elections

“If the Left forms no such alliances, it will never have any effect on the laws of the United States. To form them will require the cultural Left to forget about Baudrillard's account of America as Disneyland--as a county of simulacra--and to start proposing changes in the laws of a real country, inhabited by real people who are enduring unnecessary suffering, much of which can be cured by governmental action. Nothing would do more to resurrect the American Left than agreement on a concrete political platform, a People's Charter, a list of specific reforms. The existence of such a list--endlessly reprinted and debated, equally familiar to professors and production workers, imprinted on the memory both of professional people and of those who clean the professionals' toilets--might revitalize leftist politics.”
― Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country

“I have learnt that it is not fear that governs us, but the feedback of its projection.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying.”
― Aleister Crowley

“In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying." ---(From the pamphlet: The Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government.)”
― Aleister Crowley

“The way you think is the driving force that fashions your world thereby governing the kind of life that you live.”
― steven redhead, The Solution

“The More Citizens Conform To The Law Of Love. The Less Governing Would Be Required”
― Sunday Adelaja

“America is exactly what we make it. The land of hopes and dreams, where you build your future. This society hands us our future, and if we dare say otherwise we are crucified for it!"
"Are you now calling yourself Jesus?" I was becoming heated with him.
"Of course not! But I think that killing people for political gain is not the way a country should be run.”
― D.M. Shiro, The Grate

“… You do not know much about the art of compromise, perhaps, but I do. Indeed I do. The Senate is the finest training ground for the art. You thunder no, and you murmur yes. Everyone saves face, always, everyone obtains a little of what he wants, alway. Compromise is the very soul of statemanship. The one time it failed in America we had a civil war, and the fault, in my judgment, lay squarely in the lack of a compromiser in the South, for the North had one of the greatest compromisers in our history: Mr. Lincoln.”
― Carl Marzani, The Survivor

“We are capable of governing ourselves.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“But if, intemperately, unwisely, fatally, you sophisticate and poison the very source of government, by urging subtle deductions, and consequences odious to those you govern, from the unlimited and illimitable nature of supreme sovereignty, you will teach them by these means to call that sovereignty itself in question. When you drive him hard, the boar will surely turn upon the hunters. If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. Nobody will be argued into slavery.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02

“They govern best by governing least,’ ” ....
“It’s the first sentence of their Constitution. They are permitted to have exactly one hundred pages of laws.
Size of pages, margins, and font size specified to prevent cheating.”
― Mike Shepherd, Mutineer

“Society would govern itself spontaneously if it didn't contain sensitive and intelligent people. You can be sure that they're the only thing that hinders it. Primitive societies were happy because they didn't have such people.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet