Civilization Quote by Thomas Sowell

Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes…

— Thomas Sowell

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I dislike paying taxes as much as anyone, but yes, taxes are the price of civilization. There is no America without taxes. The question…

— David Cay Johnston

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

— Mark Skousen

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

— Jill Lepore

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

— Hillary Clinton

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not…

— Alfred de Musset

Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to…

— L. Neil Smith

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well…

— Jill Lepore