Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.