Kakha Bendukidze quotes

Kakha Bendukidze quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.”
-- Kakha Bendukidze

#Government Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Useless Quotes

“The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.”
“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.
“[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.”
“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”
“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”

Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.
“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”
“Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.”
“I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.”
“If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.”

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