David Lloyd Quotes

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

You have to accept that Batman is a fact of life in Gotham City, and on top of that, you have to accept that somehow this city manages to function with a police force that's 90% corrupt.

Civil war was taught them [Americans] that "the sacred right of insurrection" is as much out of place in a democratic state as in an aristocratic or a monarchical state; and that the government should always be clothed with ample authority to arrest and punish whoever plots its destruction.

I never wanted the government to feel my pain. I wanted it to feel my boot in its butt.

I do not expect any help for a libertarian revolution from any Government in the world…

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.

I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticise militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching the gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

The real problem is that "limited government" invariably leads to unlimited government. If history is to be any guide and current experience is to be any guide, we in the United States 200 years ago started out with the notion of limited government - virtually no government interference - and we now have a massive quasi-totalitarian government.

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.