Quotes About Society

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.