#governments

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#governments #instincts #make #masses #name

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

— Ludwig von Mises

#endure #ever #evils #governments #had

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#forbid #governments #interested #iran #like

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#become #engagement #face #governments #often

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#airplane #created #environment #foreign #governments

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#always #assume #cannot #expect #facilitate

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#bent #domination #going #governments #i

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#always #even #governments #hatched #history

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#armaments #aspect #been #change #corresponding

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#governments #leading #leading role #moving #must