Quotes About Society

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

Pushers don't pay taxes.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.