Quotes About Society

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.