Quotes about government
575 quotes from 235 people
Carl Jung1875–1961During an interview with H. R. Knickerbocker (1939), quoted in A Life of Jung (2002) by Ronald Hayman, p. 360Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address on the First Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress at the White House (13 March 1962)Disarmament without checks is but a shadow — and a community without law is but a shell.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963UN speechCertain other societies may respect the rule of force — we respect the rule of law.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at Vanderbilt UniversityI work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946Letter to Duncan Grant (15 December 1917)- John Maynard Keynes1883–1946The End of Laissez-faire (1926)
- John Maynard Keynes1883–1946The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VI, pp. 235-236
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)- Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Second Jungle Book (1895)- Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Second Jungle Book (1895)
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick1928–1999“Kubrick’s Strange Love”, Gerard Fay, The Guardian (5th June 1963)