Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O’Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O’Brien: You do not exist.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and...

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the...

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

It has to be understood that the State Department, our government, needs to do a lot more to begin to seriously address what we think is the foremost human rights issue in the world today,...

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

This is the third time the U.S. government has appointed a so-called coordinator for Tibet.

It’s not necessarily a negative, from the point of view of economic growth, … Even in Washington, D.C., the government work will be made up.

the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?

Security is especially relevant for government vendors. Governments are saying they’d rather use open-source technology because there aren’t any unseen open doors into the system. But it’s not only that. Linux offers better performance, more...

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else’s mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the...

We live in a society where interacting with government agents is apotentially hazardous activity

We do it mainly to stop a government that betrays people, that steals from its people under the guise of democracy.

We are talking about security lines that we will begin planning after the government is formed, along with coalition partners and in co-operation with settler leaders.

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes,...

That’s a question best put to the Iraqis. It’s their government. They’ll decide who they want to head it. It’s somebody who, under the terms of the [Iraqi] Constitution, needs to have the support of...

The government is clearly as adept a PR machine as there ever was one.

The expenses of government, having for their object the interests of all, should be borne by every one, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself...

This will pave the way for the opponents of the government to say war against the government is legitimate.

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also...

In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the first deifies Jesus Christ, the other Karl Marx. Neither has much...

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

The thing that has impacted life on earth the most is life on mars. That’s where the government is storing all my clones.

It’s good that we will soon have a new government. What we now need are concrete steps to tackle our problems.

For the developing world, the past half-century has been a time of recurring hope and frequent disappointment. Great waves of change have washed over the landscape, from the crumbling of colonial hegemonies in mid-century to...

Praise upon any nation will always equal its weight in criticism.

This book is dedicated to all the lawn chairs in all the living rooms of the world. I pray this book provides your owners with the strength, courage, and the wisdom to vacuum their lawns...

Generally, Wal-Mart can give real-time data faster than the government, because they can just pull this off their cash registers.

Regrettably, the bulk of foreign fighters and terrorists are infiltrating from Syria, and the Syrian government has not demonstrated any serious cooperation to help us stop their transit,

The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had...

The government should either force the population to get healthy, or tax them for not complying. If the people still refuse to shape up, they should be imprisoned. Nothing is healthier for society than more...

It’s been one of the strongest park acquisition and open space tools local government has.

There is no guarantee there won’t be a return to military government

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

Just following orders’ is no excuse unless you’re in the bedroom.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.” (Bk2:8)

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on...

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. “I’m from the government and I’m...

I need to say this – you shouldn’t trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full stop. The natural inclination of government is to hoard power and information; to...

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

The vast majority of administrators, at all times and in all societies, are prone to commit grievous errors if left entirely to their own devices. Hence, they should not be left to their own devices,...

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first...