Bad Government Quotes

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was an apologist for the divine right of kings.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it