Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state. — Thomas Sowell 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
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
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
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“This was never about welfare. You can have almost any opinion about welfare, you can be bitterly opposed to its very existence,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race,… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it was social democracy and the welfare state that bound the professional and commercial middle classes to liberal institutions in the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided.… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
“For anyone born after 1945, the welfare state and its institutions were not a solution to earlier dilemmas: they were simply the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding… — George Will Copy Share Image
What social safety net does is provide a glimmer of hope for what a democratic socialist society might look like. It makes… — Henry Giroux 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
The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a… — C. S. Lewis 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 same was true of Charles Murray’s seminal Losing Ground, another book about black folks that could have been written about hillbillies—which… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image