But without a caring society without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility government is destined to grow even larger taking more of your money burrowing deeper into your lives.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people using their government as an instrument and a tool can do toward building the whole man which will mean a better society and a better world.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls and the bane of all good society.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society it is a good thing if you possess great talent to give early in your youth a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that be a snob.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed you won't be in your profession for long. In our society it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities but in Hollywood important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

Arguments are extremely vulgar for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

He who is unable to live in society or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself must be either a beast or a god.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society because I'm a part of society and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale to dynamism to consensus and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.