#governments

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

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

— Tim Roth

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

— Lester B. Pearson

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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

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The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

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I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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