Quotes About Society

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

Government is instituted for those who live under it.

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.