Erich Fromm Quotes

The public is a part of my real life.

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena.

You know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community.

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and trustees are created for the benefit of the public.

We need government to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!

The policy of the public authorities of never taking an initiative, and always waiting to be urged to do their duty, is fatal in a ward where there is no initiative among the citizens.

The object of Socialism is not to render the individual capable of living on his personal resources. That is the theory of radical individualism. Its object is to create in him a greater and greater sense of his dependence upon the state, and, at the same time, to inculcate in him the conviction that he is a part of it and that he has a duty and responsibility toward the state; and that only in so far as he fulfills this duty can he benefit by the advantages of a complete personal and social life.

The American Government will be what we all make of it.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.