160 Quotes About Governance

Every few years, we exercise our right to select our own tormentors & oppressors. That is democracy my friend.

Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity

Like many types of criminals who may often be a product of ills that exist in their society, racists are often products of similar ills – they are the uninformed hand pulling a trigger of a gun handed down to them by a vicious system of indoctrination.

True democratic governance is doing what your people want, not just what you want for your people.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

when the democrats choose not to be democratic, democracy fails to be democratic.

In an emerging or ongoing crisis, either you’re the virtuous agent of the solution or the destructive part of the problem.

All governments, even these precious “democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the street against the light, refuse to submit to its authority, and it won’t be long before they’ll use some form of force, usually a weapon and the threat of death or injury, to compel you to comply.