Government Instability Quotes

A hated government does not last long.

The bourgeoisie is having recourse to the vilest crimes, bribing society's lowest elements and supplying liquor to these outcasts with the purpose of bringing on pogroms. The partisans of the bourgeoisie, especially the higher officials, bank clerks, etc., are sabotaging and organizing strikes in order to block the government's efforts to reconstruct the state on a socialistic basis. Sabotage has spread even to the food-supply organizations and millions of people are threatened with famine. Special measures must be taken to fight counter-revolution and sabotage.

The principle [secession] itself is one of disintegration, and upon which no government can possibly endure

India was going though a difficult time in 1997. We had revolving door governments.

I became the prime minister of Pakistan through votes, whereas five honourable judges sent me home.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

Unfortunately, many of the nations of this hemisphere are still self-tormented by domestic dissensions. Revolution succeeds revolution; injuries are committed upon foreigners engaged in lawful pursuits; much time el apses before a government sufficiently stable is erected to justify expectation of redress; ministers are sent and received, and before the discussions of past injuries are fairly begun fresh troubles arise; but too frequently new injuries are added to the old, to be discussed together with the existing government after it has proved its ability to sustain the assaults made upon it, or with its successor if overthrown. If this unhappy condition of things continues much longer, other nations will be under the painful necessity of deciding whether justice to their suffering citizens does not require a prompt redress of injuries by their own power, without waiting for the establishment of a government competent and enduring enough to discuss and to make satisfaction for them.

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

See, governments are overrated. They come and go in 5 or 10 years; it is we who have the power. But we are like Hanuman in 'Ramayan,' who needed to be reminded of his power.

I went from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.

Nothing in reality renders legitimate governments so insecure as extreme ignorance in the people. It is this which yields them an easy prey to seduction, makes them the victims of prejudices and false alarms, and so ferocious withal that their interference in a time of public commotion is more to be dreaded than the eruption of a volcano.

We have a country that is in a very delicate situation.

No wonder Sukarno doesn’t like us very much. He has to sit down with people who tried to overthrow him.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.

Recalling our history which has been characterized by political and constitutional instability …

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, has long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the immediate cause of faction, sedition, civil wars, and the total loss of liberty.

Whenever we see a state conducted by measures contrary to those made use of in its foundation, we may be assured a great revolution is at hand.