Quotes About Society

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.

If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

I'll happily pay more taxes if we all have equal human rights.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.

Some taxes are really dumb.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

Danes pay very high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would find hard to believe.

We need a world where people do not have to live in fear of the economic repercussions of getting sick or losing their home or job. Where every child gets to fulfil their potential. Where corporations pay their fair share of taxes and work for the good of the majority, not just their shareholders.

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

I have no problem paying taxes. It doesn't bother me, because I want to live in a society that's happy.

If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Everybody should pay taxes.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.