Social Quotes - Page 20

• But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Order, Morality, Separation

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• It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to a Social Chapter but not within the treaty and without Britain's participation. It sets a vital precedent. For an enlarged Community can only function if we build in flexibility of that kind... John Major deserves high praise for ensuring at Maastricht that we would not have either a Single Currency or the absurd provisions of the Social Chapter forced upon us: our industry, workforce, and national prosperity will benefit as a result.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Moving, Government, Achievement

  "Europe’s Political Architecture". Margaret Thatcher's Speech, www.margaretthatcher.org. May 15, 1992.

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• Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

  Mal Fletcher

  Problem, Found, Lasting

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• By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.

  Karl Marx

  Taken, Mean, Hands

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3”, International Pub

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• I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.

  William Graham Sumner

  Country, War, Years

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• Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change completely, and reveal unexpected depths and shallows. Will Four Weddings and a Funeral be seen one day as a vicious social satire? Could Jaws become as tearful and sentimental as Bambi?

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Years, Funeral

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• It is important that social, political, and religious freedoms grow in China. A society which recognizes religious freedom is a society which will recognize political freedom as well.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Political, Important

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• Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

  Jeff Cooper

  Political, Censorship, Spit

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• Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rights, Agreement, People

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• We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We do these things to set loose again the energy and the ingenuity of the American people. We do these things to reinvigorate those social and economic institutions which serve as a buffer and a bridge between the individual and the state - and which remain the real source of our progress as a people.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Government, Hands

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.

  Robert Bork

  People, Judging, Democracy

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• The first right of every human being is the right of self-defense. Without that right, all other rights are meaningless. The right of self-defense is not something the government bestows upon its citizens. It is an inalienable right, older than the Constitution itself. It existed prior to government and prior to the social contract of our Constitution.

  Larry Craig

  Rights, Government, Self

  Congressional Record, Volume 146, Pt. 7, June 06, 2000.

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• The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

  Karl Marx

  Spiritual, Political, Currents

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• The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

  James Cook

  Government, Addresses, Injustice

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• The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.

  James Cook

  Progress, Economic, Program

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• No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Self, People

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• Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . .

  John Steele Gordon

  Reality, Political, Doe

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• Social Security is a widely popular program because the individual has been deceived by the Statist to believe that the government has been prudently and diligently managing his accumulated pension investment in his Social Security account, which he presumes to be funded by his own payroll taxes.

  Mark Levin

  Believe, Government, Payroll Tax

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Progress, Would Be, Use

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.7, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Forever, Principles

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• It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, World, Folly

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

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• To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Giving Up, Liberty, Argument

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• New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The result is chronic government deficits, paid for by the issuance of additional paper money.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Taxation, Paper

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of our entire economy - in the bank and earning interest right now. But it doesn't. And while many believe that Social Security represents our greatest entitlement problem, Medicare is six times larger in terms of unfunded obligations.

  John C. Goodman

  Believe, Government, Should Have

  "A Prescription for American Health Care". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. March 2009.

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