William Batchelder Greene Quotes
Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
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And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
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Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.
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The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.
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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.
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People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.
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NO PROCESSED FOODS! Natural is best. Straight from the garden. Avoid the tins.
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Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.
