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Quotes About Control

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
~ Wendell Phillips
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
~ James Madison
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government
~ John Rawls
Based on every statement I've heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.
~ Bill Maher
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
~ Thomas More
Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
~ Iris Chang
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
~ Glenn Greenwald
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.
~ Bertrand de Jouvenel
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.
~ William J. Clinton
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
~ Dora Russell
We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.
~ James Warburg
The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.
~ Alex Kozinski
A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
~ Voltaire
Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.
~ Bill de Blasio
Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?
~ John Taylor Gatto
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
~ James Bovard
Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.
~ Tim Robbins
Government planning always involves compulsion.
~ Henry Hazlitt