Governments Quotes

• Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Policy
  • Responsible
  • Unhappiness

• The alternative to intellectual property is straightforward: intellectual products should not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. That means not owned by individuals, corporations, governments, or the community as common property. It means that ideas are available to be used by anyone who wants to.

  

  Brian Martin
  • Community
  • Language
  • Corporation

• Governments and their official representatives will be strictly neutral on matters of religion: not hostile, not promotional, simply neutral.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Religion
  • Governments
  • Representatives

• As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Jobs
  • Candidate
  • District

• The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.

  

  Michel Temer
  • Obligation
  • Climate
  • Governments

• Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don't want handouts. They don't want to be completely dependent on their governments - even though there's usually no opportunity for that anyway.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • America
  • Purpose
  • Families

• It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Governments
  • Revolutions

• I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the private sector, which is the biggest by far, and then the governments, you know, even in these poor countries over time has to take on these key responsibilities. How does philanthropy accelerate that? Drive the kind of innovations, make sure they get used well. So it plays this kind of special role.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Governments
  • Philanthropy
  • Sector

• Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Advantage
  • Governments
  • Promises

• Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Religions

• Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think, we will have something scientifically sound that says something about this phenomenon. The study is ongoing, and I hope that, with a push from both of us, it will provide a sound basis for serious public discussion on the migration issue.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Problem
  • Phenomenon
  • I Hope

• Governments like China and the United Arab Emirates are investing heavily in AI and see it as a competitive advantage.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Advantage
  • Governments
  • Competitive

• The only way out of international dictatorship is to place international law above governments, which means that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Means
  • Governments
  • Dictatorship

• Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Governments
  • Accountable
  • Mayors

• When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Authority
  • Religions
  • Brains

• I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.

  

  Theresa May
  • Governments
  • Reorganisation

• There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Corruption
  • Politicians
  • Governments

• Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

  

  James Cook
  • Nothing
  • Governments
  • Institutionalize

• Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Compromise
  • Oil
  • Governments

• We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Work
  • Institution

• We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Oil
  • Governments
  • Suppose

• People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • People
  • Information
  • Consumers

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