The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand. — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Copy Share Image
“Disabled people are now having to beg for small payments that once were held up as entitlements, and a way of making… — Mik Scarlet Copy Share Image
The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change. — John Monks Copy Share Image
The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
“the military has become a substitute welfare state for a large swath of small-town America. In a sense, the military—despite its reputation… — Rosa Brooks Copy Share Image
Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls -… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The welfare state and its funding are at the center of current political debate in the United States. Today, the country is… — Werner Neff Copy Share Image
The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“how often do we forget that there is hope as well, and that we seldom think about hope? We are ready to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Most televangelists, popular Christian preacher icons, and heads of those corporations that we call megachurches share an unreflective modern view of Jesus--that… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“The communist world, it may be noted, has one big myth (which we call an illusion, in the vain hope that our… — Carl Gustav Jung Copy Share Image
“Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government… — John Morris Roberts Copy Share Image
“Well, it's true that the anarchist vision in just about all its varieties has looked forward to dismantling state power―and personally I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In many respects, Barack Obama’s neo-socialism is neoconservatism’s mirror image. Openly committed to ending the Reagan era, Obama is a firm believer… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“A widely quoted study from the Oxford Martin School predicts that technology threatens to replace 47 percent of all US jobs within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 2010, the excesses of the social welfare state are well known and understood to all Americans except the liberal wing of… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
“the American West quietly became the first and most durable example of the modern welfare state. The” — Marc Reisner Copy Share Image
A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Personal accountability and responsibility is dying. Long live the Democrat welfare state. — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
The Tories have built a system defined by insecurity - from wages to job contracts to housing to the welfare state. If… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Boris Johnson and the political and financial support behind his Brexit project are probably the biggest threat to both British democracy… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
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