Quotes about Society
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life.
- Dennis Prager
Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
- Wendell Berry
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
- Adrian Rogers
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- James Madison
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
- Ronald Reagan
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
- Alexander Hamilton
We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.
- Ronald Reagan
We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
- Ronald Reagan
Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
- Abraham Lincoln