 | Philip Allott - 2002 - 448 стор.
...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...the latter negatively by restraining our vices... Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil...... | |
 | James J. Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - 2002 - 460 стор.
...distinction Paine made in the opening of Common Sense, where he wrote, "society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former...affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices."26 Beneath government and holding it up was a natural social harmony, a conviction totally different... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 стор.
...well-established among those who favored the "contract" theory of government, between society and government. "Society in every state is a blessing, but government,...even in its best state, is but a necessary evil." Government is "a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world." The... | |
 | Deepak Nayyar - 2002 - 412 стор.
...of the view which tended to treat the state almost as a 'necessary eviP. Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by oniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. (Paine 1776: 66) To the modern... | |
 | Chaohua Wang - 2005 - 372 стор.
...began with this idea. In his New Letters and Rights of Man, he developed it. Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former...distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Government is, in short, at best, a necessary evil and, at worst, an intolerable evil. (Italics in... | |
 | Eric Foner - 2005 - 378 стор.
...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...The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society is in every state a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. On the... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - 2004 - 461 стор.
...the virtue of civil society. "[Civil] society," he wrote, "is produced by our wants, and governments by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness...The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinction. The first is a patron, the latter a punisher."20 Civil society was legitimized as the... | |
 | Mary Mostert - 2004 - 230 стор.
...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...affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. ...Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary... | |
 | Florian Weber - 2004 - 332 стор.
...politique distanziert er sich von Paine,725 der zu Beginn seiner Schrift Common Sense bemerkt hatte: „Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil."726 Constant, den auf Gewalt gegründeten politischen Einfluss der Pariser Sektionen in den Jahren... | |
 | John Schrems - 2004 - 408 стор.
...not necessarily or correlatively American. Paine's words are colorful and have been adopted by many: Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: For when we suffer, or are exposed to the... | |
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Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. 
