Karl Popper Quotes

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

Government should steer, not row.

Voting has not been tough for me, for the most part, because there's guideposts about what will bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

I've always believed as a value that the government has a vital - not overwhelming, but vital - role to play in furthering human welfare and good. I think we have an important supportive role to play, hopefully intelligent and sensible.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

It's not that I am against the rich giving money to charities. I'm all for it, and we should think of ways of encouraging more of it. But I also believe that states, rather than individuals, are ultimately a better bet for delivering a fair and just world and reconciling differing interests.

This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

If you throw a welfare state into the middle of a democracy, it’s very hard to get rid of the beast.

Canada was built from its very beginnings on the belief that public leadership in the economy and on social issues would be as effective and cheap as anything done by the private sector.

The economy is the creation of the personal initiative of private citizens….Public authorities also must play an active role in promoting increased productivity with a view to social progress and the welfare of all citizens.

Child care is a family issue—not a government issue.

Compliments of your Senator, Lyndon Baines Johnson—the greatest good for the greatest number.

People who believe in governmental regulation and intervention in life—for them government is a church.

Mankind have, not only in their individual character, but in their collective capacity as nations, recognized and avowed in their opinions and actions, a system of laws calculated to produce the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

Scarcely any subject that has to be legislated upon in civil society failed, at one time or another, to demand the action of this singular Bureau [The Freedmen’s Bureau]

There are certain public needs that outweigh private interests.