...Society is produced by our wants, and government by onr wickedness; the former promotes our happiuess positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a pnnisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable...

...said Thomas Paine in a brilliant summary of this common enlightened separation, "is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former...encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions." It was society — the affairs of private social life — that bred sympathy and the new domesticated...

...Sense makes this re-evaluation of the public and private realms explicit: "society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former...affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices." With characteristic audacity, Paine reduces the virtues of classical republicanism to simple policing...

...Gesellschaft treten auseinander. TH. PAINE: Common Sense (1776), New York (Anchor Books) 1973, S. 13: »Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state ist but a necessary evil.« ms Ygl J.SCHUMANN: Grundzüge der mikroökonomischen Theorie, Berlin (Springer)...

...articulated it, society was a positive phenomenon, government a negative one: "Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former...distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher." For Paine, government itself was a "badge of lost innocence," a sign that the original cooperation...

...vigor at the beginning of Tom Paine's Common Sense (Philadelphia, 1776): Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former...the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Most recently, with the profound changes which have taken place...

...to happen. (Thomas Paine, calling government "a necessary evil," said, "Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former...affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices [original emphasis]."49) Give people the freedom to pursue their ends and make contracts, and justice...

...been announced in the first paragraph of Common Sense when he said that: 'Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former...affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.' In what looks in retrospect like a pre-emptive strike against such notions, Burke had given a diametrically...

...between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former...distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Thomas Paine, COMMON SENSE -1776 Little has changed in the management of the state for four thousand...

...der Bedürfnisse« sieht, in letzterem nur ein notwendiges Übel (65): »Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former...the latter negatively by restraining our vices.« Madison hatte in »government« einen positiven Ordnungs- und Hamilton einen aktiven Wirtschaftsfaktor...