Politics Quote by Veronica Roth

“our job as citizens, apparently, is the pursuit of happiness. Something I always have to gird myself for. I’d much rather just be happy,…

— Peter Heller

“The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother.”

— James Fallows

“People don’t know when they’re happy, at least not while it’s going on.”

— Orhan Pamuk

“Without government planning, economic resources and scientific research, individuals will not get far in their quest for happiness.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is merely that there is only so much people can do to be happy, no matter what they think they should do.”

— Lee Siegel

“Often it’s the lure of happiness that makes us unhappy.”

— Claudia Serrano

“Beware of precise plans by government. Let government predict: it makes them feel better about themselves and justifies their existence.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed policies, and they weren't smiling.

— Raul Ruiz

“Some people are happy only because they have managed to deceive others into believing that they are happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana