Famous Quotes

"Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily."

Maynard James Keenan on Government

More quotes about Government

• "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."

  Thomas Jefferson on Government

• "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

  Winston Churchill on Government

• "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

  Thomas Jefferson on Government

• "Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

  George Washington on Government

• "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one."

  Thomas Paine on Government

More quotes by Maynard James Keenan

• "The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?"

• "Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer."

• "If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common."

• "If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets."

• "The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich."