Logo
All too often, governments response to social breakdown has been a

All too often, governments response to social breakdown has been a classic case of patching – a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting – even reinforcing – dysfunctional behaviour. – Iain Duncan Smith

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Government
category

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives. – Jeb Bush

Category:
Government

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. – Tommy Franks

Category:
Government

Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Category:
Government

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. – Adrian Cronauer

Category:
Government

Random Quotes

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. – Martin Puryear

Category:
architecture

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business. – John Searle

Category:
car

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Category:
alone

To see you naked is to recall the Earth. – Federico Garcia Lorca

Category:
Nudity