Government Quotations Quotes

“A bad government cannot only be called as a ‘bad’ government; the real adjective should be this: Enemy! Yes, bad government is a real enemy for the country it governs, an enemy within!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When civilians kill, it is called murder. When governments kill, it is called pragmatism.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The misfortune of the world is that people who are too incompetent to be managers even in an apartment block come to the top management of the countries!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The world's most elusive criminal is the government.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When civilians kill, it is called murder. When governments kill, it is called patriotism.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“God is government, but government is not God.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You find your government stupid and primitive, ugly and clumsy but on the other hand you love your country very much and you find your country very beautiful? Ok then, you have one of the most common feelings in this world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If a government has the weak eyesight of a mole, that government only brings disaster to that country! The ability to see far is an absolute must to be a good government!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The biggest disaster for a country is that the government, nation, and opposition trio are all rotten, because if only one of them were not rotten, the country would find a way out of the dark!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is no nation as honourable as a nation that threw away a government that lied to itself only once, and there is no nation more dishonourable than a nation that still supports a government that has lied to itself a thousand times!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Some countries are ruled by humans, but some are ruled by animals! Totalitarian one-man regimes, where opponents are arrested for fabricated reasons, freedom of expression is restricted, reason, logic and science are not prevalent in the country, and religious oppression is effective in all areas of society are in this second group!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The worst punishment for a government is to have no choice but to remain in power, because losing power means going to jail! If a sleepy person does not have the right to sleep, this is the biggest torture for him!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A country ruled by criminals needs two revolutions, one small and one big: The small revolution is to overthrow the criminal government, the big revolution is to radically undo the damage these criminals have inflicted on the country!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Living in a country ruled by a thousand minds is much safer than living in a country ruled by one mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is no leader who has remained in power for too long and has not morally decayed, who has not become involved in violence against opponents, who has not become a demon, who has not become a fox, who has not become excessively rich, who has not become excessively autocratic, who has not become extraordinarily arrogant and spoiled, who has not become hostile to freedom, who has won the love of an entire nation to the extent of wandering the streets without bodyguards around him.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If the government in a country treats 60 percent of the population well and 40 percent badly, that means there is a dictatorship in that country; if it treats 90 percent well and 10 percent badly, or 5 percent badly, that still means there is a dictatorship in that country. Unless the government in the country treats all of the population well and embraces everyone, that means there is a dictatorship in that country and that government is illegitimate!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Are there nations whose governments do all kinds of evil but never wake up and continue to sleep soundly? Yes, there are! But we do not call them 'nations', they are simply servants of darkness, because if you do not shed light on darkness, you are serving it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan