Prabhupada: We are not concerned with government. We say there is no ksatriya, there is no government. At the present moment, anyone who has got some artificial power, he is government. That's all.
You get some way or other a little vote, and you become government. So government does not mean that. Government is another. Because there is no ksatriya, and where is government? They are thinking... Government means they should be always thinking how the citizens should be peaceful and happy and spiritually advanced. That is government. And who is caring for the citizens? They are simply exacting tax. That's all. So actually, in the Kali-yuga, because there is no ksatriya, where is the government? Sudra government is no government. Sudra has no right to govern, but by force they are governing. That's all. "Might is right."
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.1.2-5 -- Montreal, October 23, 1968
There are many controllers. "Might is right." But nobody is supreme controller. That is not possible. Nobody. Everyone is trying to become the supreme controller, but that is not being possible. By individual effort, by national effort, by communal effort, any way, every community, every nation, every individual person is trying to be the supreme. Therefore there is competition. Everyone is trying to be the supreme, but that is not possible. This world, this creation is so made that nobody is supreme. Any position you place yourself, you'll find somebody inferior to you and somebody superior to you. Nobody can say that "I am superior" or "I am inferior." If you think that you are inferior, you'll find somebody immediately less inferior than you. And if you think you are superior, you'll find immediately somebody is more superior than you.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.12 -- Montreal, August 18, 1968
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