Showing posts with label society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label society. Show all posts

Thursday, May 13, 2021

You Are Personally Responsible


 

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)


"Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil." Thomas Paine