Quotes About Society

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

Politics is but a narrow field.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

Cuttin' taxes for strippers and thugs.

I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.'

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

There are no free lunches on welfare.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.