Quotes About Society

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

The government means industry, if you know what I mean.

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.