Quotes About Society

The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.