Elie Wiesel Quotes

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.

The left don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

All this anti-Christian rhetoric that you see coming from the government, all this anti-Christian push, is not really an attack on Christianity. It's an effort to make you realize that God is your government. Your government is God.

When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

People are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses.

The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to have comforted them in their weakness, to have justified their insignificance. The State had taken on its own shoulders the entire weight of responsibility; it had liberated people from the chimera of conscience.

It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesn’t.

The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of religion, the inevitable result had been that it had incurred the hatred, disrespect and even contempt of those who held contrary beliefs.

It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?

As government grows, freedom recedes.

I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.