#governments

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#governments #invent #mobilize #need #order

I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#governments #i #know #many #palestinians

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people. ↗

— Paul Harvey

#agencies #aid #attitudes #come #dependency

By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#creating #district #framework #georgia #give

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow. ↗

— Abba Eban

#governments #longed #proposals #rejected #them

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#billion #convinced #culture #deny #faith

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states. ↗

— George Soros

#because #create #democracy #democratic #governments

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#antsy #bring #down #even #get

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. ↗

— Voltaire

#butchers #governments #need #shepherds

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#banned #being #carried #committed #countries