Tacitus Quotes

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

The more laws, the less justice.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object -- the happiness of man -- to the selfish interest of kings, nobles, and priests.

Exploitation and government are two inseparable expressions of what is called politics.

Most governments are designed for the purposes of oppression and personal ambition.

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.

In certain corrupt conditions of a State, conspicuous success is more dangerous than failure.

Democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together.

They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

A police state is a country run by criminals

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.