Community Quote by Thomas Paine

Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by…

— Thomas Paine

“SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but…

— Thomas Paine

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by…

— Thomas Paine

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively by restraining…

— Thomas Paine

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

— Thomas Paine

“As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes…

— Maitreya Upanishad

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of…

— William Herschel

“Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers…

— John Stuart Mill

“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they cannot destroy…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of the political…

— Aristotle

“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not…

— John Stuart Mill

“There are two ways of life, one leading to righteousness, which brings happiness, and the other to unrighteousness, which produces misery. One leads to…

— Arthur Findlay