Government Abuse Quotes

“Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Beware the build-up of an inward wound,
For it will at last burst forth;
Avoid, while you can, distress to one heart,
For a single moan can quake the Earth.”
― Saadi, The Gulistan: or Rose-Garden or Shekh Muslihu'd-din Sadi of Shiraz

“There are honest politicians. They haven't won the elections yet.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals together and see what happens, You get concentrated criminality, crime in the midst of punishment.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“They had become too conceited to be capable of normal human feelings.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-backward because it reflects a policy choice. A decision has been made to repel the average citizen from gaining certain knowledge or opportunities.

When most people encounter the seemingly arbitrary and capricious workings of, for instance, the IRS or the DMV, they accept it because they've been trained to assume that the government is run by half-wits. They yell at the lowly staffer in front of them, then sulk away and comply with the absurd rules or give up. Yet what the vast majority of citizens see as mistakes are the result of calculated design. Some high-level political functionary stipulated that the form must be completed in triplicate. A few billionaire donors drafted the fine print that disqualifies the neediest from touching the bounty. These are very smart motherfuckers. To think otherwise plays into their hands.”
― Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

“The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.”
― Steven Magee

“We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up, prideful intelligence has outstripped our instinct for survival and the road back to safety has already been washed away. In which case there's nothing much to be done. If there is something to be done, then one thing is for sure: those who created the problem will not be the ones who come up with a solution.”
― Arundhati Roy, Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations

“There is a word we should be using towards government officials whenever they deny our individual rights: "No". Being just a word, it isn't a strong weapon. But it is the intellectual wellspring from which all other weapons flow.”
― Mike Klepper

“Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“For the evil our government does, tinfoil hats are simply not required, and are indeed a detriment.”
― Mike Klepper

“I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop, incompetent cop, aggressive cop, assaulting cop, corrupt cop, or the worst one of them all, the terminator cop.”
― Steven Magee

“A mind funded by logic can not be corrupted.”
― Axel Voigtländer

“Careful,' he said, 'Information can liberate but also imprisonate....”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“I regularly used to tell people that the fastest way to move up in the government is to just screw up, and the bigger the screwup, the bigger the promotion. Every person implicated in your mistakes has an interest in covering up what they did, so they will promote you. That means the people at the very top are usually the most immoral, unethical people in the entire agency.”
― Kash Pramod Patel, Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy

“Beware of corporate government cops.”
― Steven Magee

“My mind set off in fear and trepidation. Where are the babies and girls in Trump's gulag? I'm a speculative fiction writer. I write horror. There are entirely too many scenarios to mention that gravely concern this iniquitous policy.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“An elephant constantly in denial. - On Government”
― Lamine Pearlheart, To Life from the Shadows

“No matter the time and era, if ever a government in any corner of the world, begins to persecute a population on the basis of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, in the name of national security and prosperity, then it is the existential responsibility of every thinking human to stand up and defy the authority of such heinous, uneducated, megalomaniacal, delusional and self-righteous government.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“A country ruled by criminals needs two revolutions, one small and one big: The small revolution is to overthrow the criminal government, the big revolution is to radically undo the damage these criminals have inflicted on the country!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“They meet all our needs. They spread us out. They teach us to behave. So they can ignore us.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“Everybody is a terrorist, till you see the reformist. Bring that reformer out my friend, in its full glory and ferociousness. Once you do, every time a politician or fundamentalist even dreams of doing something inhuman, a voice of caution will strike them from inside - don't you dare, kid - or else, they’ll bring hell down on you - then you’ll have neither the seat, nor the ass to sit on it!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“When the civilians remember their responsibility, politicians will forget which party they belong to, so will their next of kin. And at the slightest urge for exploitation, a voice of caution will ring in their head - don't you dare, kid - or else, you’ll have neither the seat nor the ass to sit on it!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens . . . The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose”
― John Maynard Keynes

“When government institutions hold more lunatics than mental institutions, know that, there's something clinically wrong with this world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“The common person is powerless.”
― Steven Magee

“A government that doesn't put criminals in jail is a jail.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov