#govern

Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#arts #diy #funding #government #grant

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have. ↗

— Thomas More

#government #human-nature #peace #rulers #war

That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#business

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#corruption #court-system #courts #ethical-behaviour #ethics

Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay. ↗

— Thucydides

#governments #rulers #business

The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their competitors. ↗

— Newton Lee

#politics #business

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#business #common-defense #disasters #domestic-tranquility #emergencies

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. ↗

— John Adams

#liberty #change

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#delivered #extremely #four #go #governments

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. ↗

— Werner Finck

#eat #everybody #government #nobody #table