Government Fear Quotes

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal government documents. Precisely what they were afraid of was that the "takeover" of South Vietnam by nationalist forces would not be brutal. They feared it would be conciliatory and that there would be successful social and economic development - and that the whole region might work.

Government tends to believe in top-down solutions, and government fears of bottom-up solutions.

Governments are scared of software.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

When a government is in fear of dissent from its own citizens, and when its reaction is to shut out that dissent, we should all worry.

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

One of the problems is that there are people in the shadows. There are people afraid of their own government

Today, governments have more to fear from within than without

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

I love my country but fear my government.

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.

Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.

Sometimes I feel like the government is more afraid of people telling the truth than they are of the protests and violence.

When we do not understand something, a common reaction is to fear it. In government, this is the usual, and encouraged, reaction. The reaction to the gig economy has been no different, and this growing fear has unfortunately turned into a legislative bloodbath.

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

There is a pattern whereby even if you can't map out the exact policies and issues that might be dangerous for you as an individual... we've seen this before. And you don't have to join all the dots to see it ends badly. There shouldn't be that kind of fear from any community in the UK about a future government.

The conduct of (the) Government seems a mixture of timidity and cunning; afraid of insurrections, they court and provoke them.