#governments

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. ↗

— Tom Allen

#attempt #attention #citizens #continued #darfur

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

— Maggie Gallagher

#become #cannot #close #exercise #governments

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#antsy #bring #down #even #get

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

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

— Antonio Banderas

#govern #governments #i #i think #more

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

#africa #apartheid #around #corporate #could

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#am #care #governments #i #i am

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#again #american #american people #any #back

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#commissioners #convictions #governments #happened #marriage