#governments

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. ↗

— Voltaire

#butchers #governments #need #shepherds

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#banned #being #carried #committed #countries

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do. ↗

— Tim Roth

#child #everyone #governments #think #you

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#been #easy #governments #incite #man

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#church #government #governments #religion #religion

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#called #children #ensure #exists #food

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in. ↗

— James Buchan

#always #charge #democracies #estates #extend

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization. ↗

— John Conyers

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