GOVERNMENTS
(See also Democracy; Dictators; Fascism; Kingdom; Nazism; Politics; Theocracy; World Government [God’s]; individual countries by name)
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
American Movement for World Government: w82 11/15 26
ancient: ad 996-998; w68 617; rl 4-5
Aristotle’s view: g85 4/8 3
black rule: w78 5/15 15
blame religion: g74 7/22 29
bribes:
FBI Abscam investigation: w81 1/15 26
capitalism: g81 12/8 5-11
communism: g81 12/8 5, 7-12; w63 515; w60 121; g60 9/8 16-19; w58 629; yw 296; gr 11
constitutions: w78 1/15 12
cooperation among: w76 583
corruption: g80 12/8 29; w78 1/15 11; w75 241-242; w74 67; w71 299-300; w71 630; g66 11/22 6-7; g64 8/8 5; g64 10/8 11; g64 12/22 20-22; w63 133; g63 4/8 6; w62 69; g62 7/8 14; w61 519; g60 11/8 29-30; w58 383; g57 5/22 16; g56 3/8 8; w53 131-132; g53 12/8 9-12; w52 148; g52 6/8 8; g50 10/8 10-11; g49 8/22 3-7; g49 11/8 20; g41 9/17 28-29; g40 5/15 27; w32 218-219; w31 154-155; g31 9/16 825; g31 11/25 109-114
decisions influenced by astrology: g81 3/8 31
deficit spending: g78 6/22 29
democracy: w79 1/15 3; g76 9/22 21-22; g75 3/22 3-4; g75 6/22 29-30; g75 9/8 29; g72 3/8 30-31; ad 687; w66 714-715; w63 515; w59 232; w56 198; g53 4/8 9-11; g53 4/22 21-23; g53 5/8 13-16; g53 5/22 9-12; g53 12/22 9-11; w50 519; g47 6/8 3-4; g46 2/13 20-22; g45 3/14 4-7; g44 8/30 4-8; g43 5/26 3-11; g43 6/9 13-15; wl 69; w41 278; g41 8/20 3-11; g35 8/28 742-744
desirable: g85 4/8 12-13; w72 611-612
development: g85 4/8 3; w68 617-618, 621-623; rl 4-8, 13-18; g64 5/22 29; w53 430-434; g53 11/8 13-14; w52 371-372
dictatorships: g76 3/8 29-30; g75 3/22 3-4
discussion: g85 4/8 3-13; w82 5/15 3-7; g81 12/8 5-12; w80 1/15 3-21; g75 3/22 3-6; ad 680-681
exception to obedience to laws of: g78 6/22 28
exist by God’s permission: bw 62; w72 266-267; ad 1536
factors in breakdown and decline of: w82 5/15 4
failure of human: w85 1/15 12-15; w84 11/15 4-7; w83 1/15 11; w82 5/15 3-5; w82 10/15 18; tr 69-70; w80 1/15 7; w80 10/15 15-16; w78 1/15 12-14; w76 218; g76 9/22 20-22; w75 612-613; og 3; g75 3/22 3-5; w74 5; w74 547-551; w74 611-616; ts 153-154; hu 3-5, 9-12; g74 6/22 4-9; g74 7/22 29; g74 9/8 5; g74 10/8 5-6, 15-17, 29; g74 11/22 16, 20; g74 12/8 9-11; g74 12/22 29; g73 2/8 30; g73 10/8 23-25; g73 11/8 3-6; w72 228-229, 231-233, 579-580, 611-616; g72 3/8 5-7; g72 10/22 13; w71 67-68; w71 165-166; w71 197; w71 299-300; w71 625-626, 630; w71 741; g71 9/8 30; g71 10/8 18-19; w70 238; g70 7/22 29-30; g70 8/8 29; w69 37; g69 1/22 15-16; g69 5/22 31; g69 10/8 9-10; w68 68, 627, 742; rl 25-27; g68 10/8 16; g68 10/22 6; g68 12/22 6-7
instability: w74 492
twentieth century: g85 4/8 6-10
fate of human: w78 6/15 12-15; go 178-182; w72 583; w71 623-624; nc 26-28; g71 8/22 9-10; g71 10/8 23; w68 628-629; rl 27-29; w67 158; w63 682; w59 43, 314-315; yw 123-127; w53 383; w52 52; g32 7/20 647-654
former president of El Salvador (life story): w78 1/1 5-11
interdependencies: g84 12/22 5-6
invisible control: g63 2/22 7; w62 71; g62 10/8 20-21; w56 118-120; w55 529-532; dh 12-19; w53 581-582; w52 263; lg 56; g45 1/17 4-6; ki 74; g40 7/10 20; g36 1/1 216-217; wn 59; w33 221; w31 121-122, 153-154
Israel (ancient): ad 1038-1039; w70 372-373; li 168; w65 651; w62 69-71; w60 456-459; w59 183, 233-235; yw 87, 90; g58 2/22 5-6; nh 122, 124; g45 9/26 16-17; ki 121-175; w43 163; tf 189
kinds: g85 4/8 3-4; pm 14; w71 681; w52 369; g45 7/4 31; w35 62
Kingdom of God: w85 1/15 15-20; w85 10/15 4-7; w85 12/15 10-15; w83 4/15 8-9, 16-18; w82 5/1 9-11; kc 8-11, 29-30; tr 75-77, 103-105; hp 152-158, 160; w79 1/15 3-5; w77 580-582; w75 239; w75 260-262; w75 621-623, 632-635; og 24-29; g75 3/22 5-6; g75 4/8 11-14; w74 106-108; g74 8/22 27; w72 580-583; pm 224-225; w71 3-5; w71 165-167; w71 281, 286; w71 568-571; w71 635; ad 997-1005, 1536; te 159; g71 10/8 22-25; w70 196-197; g70 3/22 8; w69 131-132, 235; fm 367-369; is 181-182; g69 10/8 11; w68 764-765; g68 12/22 7-8; w67 585-586; ev 173; g67 3/22 7; w66 617-618; kd 13; w65 622; gv 19-20; w63 47, 134-135; ln 19-20; w62 327, 613-622; tc 5-26; g62 10/8 24-27; g61 4/22 20-22; w60 131; w59 228-243; mn 21-23; g58 12/22 5-7; w56 582-583; w55 446; w53 434-436; nh 342; g53 5/22 11-12; lg 136-139; w50 237; w44 163; ki 317-327; ow 21-28; g44 9/27 16-17; w41 158-159, 227-235; gp 4-9, 22-28; g39 12/13 17-18
blessings to earthly subjects: ce 232-244, 246
earthly administration: w74 292-293
ruler: w74 68-70
why needed: w85 1/15 10-15; w85 11/15 3-5
worldwide issue concerning: w83 1/1 8-16, 22-24
lack of confidence in: w80 1/15 7; g76 4/22 29; g75 12/8 30
laxity in industrial law enforcement for profit: g85 3/8 30
leaders distrusted: g74 3/22 6; g73 10/8 12; g73 11/8 3-5; g72 8/22 29
Machiavelli, Niccolò: g81 10/8 4
statesmen’s rules: g85 4/8 7; g38 10/19 10
meaning of term: ad 680; w68 616; rl 3
military governments:
increase in number: g83 6/8 29
most common form: w79 1/15 3
need for government: g85 4/8 3; w78 1/15 12
number of “kingdoms” in world today: w79 1/15 3
obedience to Caesar’s: tr 157-160; w80 5/15 5-6; hp 165-167; bw 62-69; g77 2/8 27-28; g77 11/22 5-6; yb75 238; g74 2/22 27-28; tp73 135-138; w72 266-269, 640; ad 1560-1561; te 135-138; g69 5/22 26-27; li 215-218; w65 4-6, 422; yb65 6-8; w64 357-358, 616, 668-669, 748-749; w63 49-51; ln 24-29; w62 649-651, 656-666, 681-695, 709-723; g62 2/22 12; w60 500; w59 397-398; g59 6/8 28; w57 753; g57 6/22 6; g57 7/22 5-6; w53 413, 479; lg 234-248; w51 76-77; g51 1/8 25-27; el 201-204; w49 105-107; g40 7/10 17-18; g36 9/23 817-818
oppression: w76 222
paperwork required by: g77 1/8 31
patriarchal: w60 456; qm55 357; w53 402-403; w52 432-443; g37 3/10 382
people’s responsibility: w71 629-630
political elections: g64 12/22 20-22
Politics—Its Different Forms (chart): g85 4/8 4
prayer for: w84 5/1 15; w64 563; w58 505; g53 6/22 25-26; w52 377-380; w43 379-380; w36 6; w33 137
problems facing: g84 12/22 3-6
republic: w79 1/15 3
requirements for good: w67 663
responsibility of those supporting: w59 661; w57 694-695; g56 6/8 6; w55 720-722; sr55 237; w52 345; w51 288; g51 8/22 24; w50 438; w39 331
rise of, by revolutions: g71 6/8 20
sanctions: g59 1/8 4; w55 511; w52 158-159, 372; w32 121-123
Satanic influence: g85 4/8 11-12
socialist: g81 12/8 5, 8-10; g60 2/8 13-16; g33 5/10 494; g30 9/3 783
“stripping the governments and authorities bare” (Col 2:14, 15): w56 371; w55 630-631
superiors and inferiors: w59 500-501; w58 109-112; w52 370-381
symbolic representations: w82 5/15 6; go 180; hs 152; sl 217-218, 296-298, 304-305; pm 223-224; fm 72-75; w66 663; w62 729; w59 230-231, 472-474; yw 168-172; w55 434; w53 582-583; nh 109; w42 88, 90; w41 345; w40 111, 141; w32 187
terrorism against: g81 12/22 3-8
Theocracy: w79 3/1 12-18; w71 681; w71 711, 714; w71 741-747
totalitarian: w56 211-217; w52 371; g50 1/22 7-8; g50 5/22 4-5; g44 9/13 29; w40 140-142; g40 12/25 16-17
United States:
viewed as “Big Business”: g84 3/8 29
use of torture by: g84 7/22 29; g83 4/8 29
world government: w78 3/1 16-31; w76 167; w76 267; w75 260-262; w75 615-616, 622-623; og 11, 13, 27-29; g74 6/22 9; g73 2/8 30; g73 10/8 14, 28-29; w72 611-612; w71 68; w71 197-198; g71 10/8 22-23; w66 165; w65 613-627; gv 3-29
discussion: g84 12/22 3-9; go 5-16
educational program: g85 4/8 12-13
God’s Kingdom becomes: w82 5/15 6-7; go 64-70
God’s promise dependable: w79 12/1 20-21
how to be realized: g84 12/22 7-9
need for: w85 1/15 14-15; g85 4/8 12; w84 3/15 10; g84 12/22 3-4; w83 4/15 17; w82 10/15 4-7; w82 11/15 26
obstacles: g84 12/22 5-6
requirements: g84 12/22 6
requirements for a world ruler: w78 1/15 14-15
Supreme Governor: go 17-36
Toynbee’s (Arnold J.) comment on: w82 5/15 4
worldly philosophy’s view of government: g81 1/8 22
world powers: g84 6/8 9-11; w57 755; sr55 127-129; w53 430-434, 581; el 194-195; g47 8/22 13-16
worship of state: w75 227-231; g69 6/22 31; w65 8-9, 12; yb65 12-13, 18; w63 731; w57 755; g57 6/22 6; lg 240-246; w50 437-438; el 200-204; g48 10/8 27; g42 2/18 12; g35 8/14 724
Quotations
developing a collision course between government and religion: g79 2/8 29
each nation is an outlaw: g71 6/8 20
governments everywhere have begun not to work: w83 1/15 11; w82 10/15 18
governments of the world are bankrupt: w77 207
happiness of society ought to be objective of all government: w78 1/15 12
I’m struck by the virtual impossibility of changing much in: w80 1/15 7
men bad, governments bad: w59 231-232; g58 11/22 7
nations must unite into a single government that can prevent war: w82 11/15 26
no government has ever been devised that will insure that good and wise leaders will always steer the ship of state: w84 11/15 7
no one fully understands the present situation, including all government officials: w80 10/15 16
only remedy to avoid atomic war: That of Jehovah’s Witnesses!: w76 135
organized crime can’t exist without corruption at all levels: w78 1/15 11
some form of world government must be established: w77 434
some form of world government will be necessary: w85 1/15 14
there isn’t a nation in the world that has a stable government today: w83 1/15 11
the world is on the verge of a human catastrophe and a political disaster: w85 1/15 12
to master supernational problems we need supernational institutions and power: w76 39
transition from a system of states to an empire of the earth is the gravest question humanity confronts: g84 12/22 6
twentieth century, the Age of Competing Ideologies, or, more simply, the Age of Agony: g85 4/8 3