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Quotes About Control

We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.
~ Stephan Kinsella
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.
~ Giacomo Casanova
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.
~ Karl Kautsky
Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
Public influence is the real government of the world.
~ Josiah Warren
Government is essentially the negation of liberty.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.
~ Stefan Molyneux
In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.
~ Ken Blackwell
I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.
~ Joichi Ito
I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
~ Alfonso Cuaron
The king reigns but does not govern.
~ Jan Zamoyski
When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
~ Livy
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
~ Ralph Steadman
The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force
~ Ann Coulter
If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.
~ Erich Fromm
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
~ Anton Chekhov
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
~ Alan Greenspan
No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.
~ Angela Merkel
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
~ Carroll Quigley
The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.
~ Anthony Burgess
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
~ Malcolm X
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America... you are free to do as we tell you... you are free to do as we tell you.
~ Bill Hicks
Governments institutionalize something for nothing.
~ James Cook