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Quotes About Society

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
~ Herbert Hoover
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.
~ Thomas Paine
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.
~ William Colby
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government
~ J. P. Morgan
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
~ Robert B. Reich
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.
~ George Burns
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
~ Aristotle
Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.
~ Carly Fiorina
I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.
~ Bob Hope
In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.
~ Aristotle
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
~ Tim Roth
We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.
~ Gary DeMar
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.
~ Noam Chomsky
Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus every four years?
~ Doug Stanhope
When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
~ Edward Abbey
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
~ Wendell Phillips
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
~ William Penn
We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
~ Bill Gates