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Quotes About Society

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
~ Daniel Morgan
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
~ Noah Webster
All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.
~ Lysander Spooner
Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.
~ Ashraf Ghani
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
~ Adam Smith
All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.
~ Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.
~ Bertrand de Jouvenel
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
~ David Lloyd George
The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
~ Colin Powell
Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.
~ Tim Robbins
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
~ Robert Heilbroner
People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
~ Will Rogers
Public influence is the real government of the world.
~ Josiah Warren
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
~ Lincoln Steffens
The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.
~ Immanuel Kant
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.
~ Rose Pastor Stokes
The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.
~ Anthony Burgess
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
~ Edmund Burke
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
~ Jerry Brown
You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.
~ Rick Santorum
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.
~ Laozi