Quotes About Control

This is government. There is no entertainment.

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

I don't know if you have a child, but what the Chinese government want people to see is like you would want a child to see. Because every film shown in China is one that a child could see.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.