Quotes About Control

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

I've always been about less government.

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off... and the standard of living has multiplied.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

Government governed least is government governed best.

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates.

Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Government is a necessary evil

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.