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" Quotes and Sayings About governments

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Administer Fortunate Governments How
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What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

Fortune Good Good Fortune Governments
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Beginning Between Brutal Differences
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Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

Attack Choose Co-Operation Cooperate
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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Away Because Easier Fading
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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.

Alone Always Even Governments
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

Before Cities City Could
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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Research Big Component Crucial
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

Blaming Destroying Environment Fond
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Enemies Example Governments Individuals
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Tempted Impulsive Sheer Suffer
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

Proposals Time Rejected Again
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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Aggression Begins Believe Cheap
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People do not make wars; governments do.
Governments Make People Wars
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We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

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Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

About Drawing Few Governments
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What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Also Collective Governments Interest
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The U.N. doesn't have any troops; we borrow them from governments.

Any Borrow Governments Them
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Prince Government Dangerous Elements
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Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

Fear Governments Most Paranoid
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Governments don't control people like they used to.
Governments Control People
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The Economic and Social fallout of COVID19 can lead to overthrow of Governments especially in weaker nations, Revolutionary insurrections, Civil unrest, rising violent crime rates and widening the fault lines of fragile societies and nations.

Covid19 Economic Civil unrest Weaker
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“Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times.”

Serial Killers Small Scale
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I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Think History Exaggeration Largely
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In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Enemies Enemy Governments Invent
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By allowing super wealthy corporations and individuals to avoid paying their fair share of tax, tax havens are denying governments' revenue that could and should be spent on schools, healthcare, and other essential services.

Spent Revenue Share Avoid
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Far too many governments are cutting back on their investment in human development.

Back Cutting Development Far
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Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

Almost Been Dictatorship European
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

Nations Reforms Issues Interfere
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

Course Governments Rich Soak
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Changed Changes Conditions Governments
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If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.

Adapt Agendas Big BigCorporations
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Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

Government derive Power Consent
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Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

Nothing blind People Common enemy Voters
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It is my duty to make sure that young people hold governments accountable for the implementation of the frameworks they signed up for

My duty Young people Governments Accountable
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Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

Against Argument Contrary Course
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Advantage Afraid Almost American
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

Continent Bail Further Side
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If African governments are serious about encouraging investments in their infrastructure, they have to behave as if they are, and so far, there is little evidence that there is commitment and seriousness.

Governments Encouraging investments Infrastructure
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Governments where the 'best talker', 'most visible person' and 'most funded person' keep winning should disappear. We need a new government type, structurally made up of experts only, and where the citizen is involved in day-to-day decisions.

Government Best talker Visible person Keep winning
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There should be no cause for panic in Ekiti State and indeed across Nigeria over the reported case of coronavirus because measures have been set in motion by various governments to respond adequately to the scourge.

No cause For panic Reported case Various government
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The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straitjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

The rules Engagement Rigid Governments
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The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything

More laws Government pass Individual freedom Student
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Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

Most government Pragmatic Logical Pockets
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People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

People Afraid Heir government
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What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

Organized violence Laws orders Obey Compel you
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Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Democracy Power Reforming Governments
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We must do everything we can to protect our children from disease, and I encourage all governments in Africa to invest in

We must Do everything Protect Our children
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