“low-skilled workers and low-income families because public supports are particularly important for these persons’ well-being and because their experiences of the welfare… — Steven Rathgeb Smith Copy Share Image
Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
We all avow to struggle for making this country a welfare state where everyone is allowed to spend life on the basis… — Abdul Qadeer Khan Copy Share Image
Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the attack on the welfare state. Moreover, all solutions to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Being reliant on legal aid is probably inconceivable to most of us. But this is no different from other branches of the… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“somewhat different. Many European countries have long practiced something resembling social democracy: but they have forgotten how to preach it. Social democrats… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that… — Brian Balogh Copy Share Image
The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“The United States, with the greatest ability and the weakest desire to finance a welfare state, winds up in the middle of… — William Voegeli Copy Share Image
When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“But one of the main reasons why Denmark does so well in international happiness surveys is the welfare state, as it reduces… — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“It is unclear what Fred Koch’s views of Hitler were during the 1930s, beyond his preference for the country’s work ethic in… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“It ain't have no place in the world that exactly like a place where a lot of men get together to look… — Samuel Selvon Copy Share Image
Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers… — Avram Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
I think the state should be as small as possible and only there to pick up where people need help, such as… — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
What we’re putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state… for 60 years. I think it will have a… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies.… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
Doing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Detroit is an extreme example of the fact that public-sector employment has become in effect a supplementary welfare state, with salaries and… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
“In reply to the argument that a little socialism is good so long as it doesn't go too far. It is tempting… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
