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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw
From a psychological point of view, when people go under pressure in life, be it economically or otherwise, they seek support from the people closest to them, usually religious or ethnic groups. They also start blaming other groups who have more control over the national resources. If the gap of power is wide, this will eventually create deep divisions in the nation. The divisions can take on new forms of conflict such as class warfare, ethnic, religious, political unrest and sometime civil war. The only effective protection against national divisions is an open socioeconomic system with a large and growing middle class – Med Jones
Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom. – Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld
Over the long term, if government revenues continue to be less than the expenditures (deficit). This will result in accumulated debt. An increasing government debt will result in higher interest payments, and less money available for socioeconomic development. To pay for the debt, the government will have to raise taxes, which will reduce the competitive position of the country in the global economy and chase investors away resulting in less economic activities and more job losses. In order to avoid higher unemployment and social instability, the government have to raise more debt to fund spending and welfare support by raising the interest rate which will increase the cost of money, reduce corporate profits and slow economic investments, thus resulting in more job losses and reduced government revenues, despite income tax increases. It is what I call a vicious economic cycle. – Med Jones
Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination. – Sir Winston Churchill
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. – Whitney Moore Young
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. – Abraham Lincoln
China and Africa have strong growing relationship; as China continues to grow, we will see the Chinese offer more infrastructure development to African governments in return for natural resources and farmland to support its vast population. It is a natural and mutually beneficial relationship. – Med Jones
Over the long term, if government revenues continue to be less than the expenditures (deficit), then the economic health of the country worsens because this will result in accumulated debt. An increasing government debt will result in higher interest payments, and less money available for socioeconomic development. To pay for the debt, the government will have to raise taxes, which will reduce the competitive position of the country in the global economy and chase investors away resulting in less economic activities and more job losses. In order to avoid higher unemployment and social instability, the government have to raise more debt to fund spending and welfare support by raising the interest rate which will increase the cost of money, reduce corporate profits and slow economic investments, thus resulting in more job losses and reduced government revenues, despite income tax increases. It is what I call a vicious economic cycle. – Med Jones
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. – Frank Zappa
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. – Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves. – George Washington
Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. – Josh Sugarmann
It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. – William Shakespeare
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards. – Alan Simpson
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. – John Buchan
Be good to people in your way up, so if you ever fall you will need their support on your way down. – The Omani Shed
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. – Gloria Steinem
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. – John Howe
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. – Frank Zappa
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. – John Locke
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination. – Andrew Lang
History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it! – Mehmet Murat ildan
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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