Repressive Government Quotes

#1. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.

Timothy Snyder

#2. I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!"
"What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons.
"A tautology," said the Dean, from above.

Terry Pratchett

#3. And that is the problem with a society that doesn't read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation's indifference.

Lourd De Veyra

#4. But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

Barney Frank

#5. I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.

Jay Maisel

#6. I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Alan Arkin

#7. Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Jesse Owens

#8. I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

Bianca Jagger

#9. when you reach a point where you can distinguish between the things you thought you wanted and the things you actually need, that is an epiphany.

Paul Stanley

#10. I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

David Byrne

#11. Some promises matter more than others.

Deborah Harkness

#12. Greenberg tells me, "Never blame a text from the Bible for your behavior. It's irresponsible. Anybody who says X, Y, and Z is in the Bible - it's as if one says, 'I have no role in evaluating this.'" The

A. J. Jacobs

#13. And the proof of his insanity? His belief that the U.S. government was a repressive conspiracy that muzzled radical opinion. Only an insane person would believe that! The Unabomber had really, really liked Leila.

Jonathan Franzen

#14. If so men's memories not a monument be,
None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone,
Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown.
Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?

John Vance Cheney

#15. The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead of harnessing it with onerous regulations and a repressive tax code.

Matt Salmon

#16. If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

Barry McGuigan

#17. To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Angelina Jolie

#18. May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.

Marty Rubin

#19. I'm not coming over anymore if Alice is going to treat me like Guinea Pig Barbie when I do, I griped.

Stephenie Meyer

#20. By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

Todd Akin

#21. Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

Peter J. Carroll

#22. Margaret Thatcher, like George W. Bush and Tony Blair after her, never hesitated to augment the repressive and information-gathering arms of central government.

Tony Judt

#23. When people listen they make a listening noise.

David Mitchell

#24. Life fades in the presence of pain.

Pierce Brown

#25. Our relationship with God broadens our opportunities and influence on earth

Sunday Adelaja