Welfare Quotes · Page 10

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

— George Washington

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

— Thomas Sowell

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

— Charles Evers

I would never call our country the welfare system for Mexico.

— Kevin de Leon

Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare

— Tony Juniper

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

— Charles Evers

I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.

— Kelly Preston

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them…

— Peter Singer

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

We prefer paychecks to welfare checks for the American people and a robust middle class with rising wages.

— Peter Navarro

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers,…

— Murray Rothbard

It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it…

— Philipp Melanchthon

Kalaignar will always shape up alliances at the national level keeping the welfare of Tamil Nadu and the Indian democracy in mind.

— M. K. Stalin

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

— Charles Kennedy

I have fond memories of the Grand National, but in recent years, as I have become more committed to animal welfare, I…

— John Bishop

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against…

— Philip Zimbardo

I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my…

— Haim Ginott

The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I'm an ambassador for Best Friends [Animal Society], an incredible organization that's devoted to the welfare of animals - in particular, trying…

— Patrick Fabian

What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement,…

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The…

— Larry Elder

Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and…

— Liz Murray

We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must…

— Malcolm X

In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the…

— George Washington

“As industrial jobs began disappearing from cities, many black men found themselves back in positions of economic helplessness, without the kinds of…

— Tom Burrell

He who has learnt to control his tongue has attained self-control in a great measure. When such a person speaks he will…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish…

— V. Raymond Edman

Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or…

— Gautama Buddha

The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

In my case, I give a lot to animal welfare because I think that's pretty neglected in America.

— Martha Nussbaum

As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters

— Tommy Farr

PRONASOL repositions the PRI as a welfare machine.

— Denise Dresser

We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.

— William J. Clinton

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

— Charles Barkley

“almost no one who became a welfare mom ever came off of welfare,”

— Ben Carson

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

— Andrew Young

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

— Dennis Prager