Quotes About Society

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

Right now there's kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.