Neal Shusterman Quotes

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

A good government can no more exist without propaganda than propaganda can exist without a good government.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government practically just so much.

The left don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixites. Those who didn't find out in the sixites will find out in the near future because we're going to have a rerun.

I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I think the Arab Spring happened because particularly young people knew they were living in a context where they could not realize their full potential, that they are being kept down by their own governments.

Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.

I'm a parent, and I regulate what my kids listen to. I don't need the government to be the parent. If I'm a crappy parent, then I need the government involved.

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

I was getting mad at the system or the politicians or the government, and then I realized someone should talk about this stuff, and I have a big, multinational global-youth platform of kids who are going to change the world. So I was like, "I should be doing that. I should be showing this to people. That's my job." And since that time, I've been very happy.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

This is me putting it simply; the politicians are one demographic and they see that Arizona is changing. I feel like the only instinct to retain power is to have education favor you. You have this Mexican American program that helps kids take ownership of their race and their power. It threatens the political powers that are in place.

The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.