Welfare state Quotes

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

— Anthony Trollope

The welfare state is an assault on families.

— Larry Elder

When there is no welfare state then the system is free.

— Javier Milei

Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.

— Donald Soper, Baron Soper

“The welfare state is the bankruptcy law for workers”

— Ha-Joon Chang

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

— Dennis Prager

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

— Gerhard Schroder

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

— Joe Orton

“Socialism is not the same as social democracy, the political system that created Sweden’s welfare state.”

— Christina Johansson Robinowitz

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

— Monica Crowley

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

— Jeb Bush

“We are living now in what is known as the Welfare State, which means – broadly – that everybody is completely destitute.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

— John Monks

I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused…

— Martin McGuinness

“Moreover, it was social democracy and the welfare state that bound the professional and commercial middle classes to liberal institutions in the…

— Tony Judt

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less…

— Caspar Weinberger

“(Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle…

— Zadie Smith

“You say, "There are men who have no money," and you apply the law. But the law is not a self-supplied fountain,…

— Bastiat, Frederick

“if we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're…

— George f. Will

“The colonel stood up. “I hope you enjoy your trip to Uruguay. Its government is stable, democratic, and politically mature. There’s even…

— Philip Kerr

American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state…

— Robert Kuttner

In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe...…

— Noam Chomsky

The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding…

— George Will

Britain cannot afford to allow a culture of Left-wing-dominated, single-issue activism to hold back our country from investing in infrastructure and new…

— Chris Grayling

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

— Tom Burrell

“Ironically, opponents of basic income on the grounds that it would lead to a dismantling of the welfare state tend to support…

— Guy Standing

Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in…

— Jon Weisman

Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the…

— Larry Elder

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

Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And…

— Milton Friedman

“Free education, almost free healthcare, a generous benefits system and a better state pension than elsewhere, guarantee equal opportunities for all citizens.…

— Tarja Moles

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

“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

“A category of government activity which, today, not only requires the closest scrutiny, but which also poses a grave danger to our…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“But until you ask why there’s an increase in social disintegration, and why more and more resources are being directed towards the…

— Noam Chomsky

“[A] central theme is why social, political, and economic institutions tend to coevolve in a manner that reinforces rather than undermines one…

— Torben Iversen

“This complex and contradictory relation to inequality largely persists in the United States to this day: on the one hand this is…

— Thomas Piketty

“This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“What was shocking were the rewards my father's cousins had gathered in the intervening couple of decades. They farmed now on thousands…

— Philip Connors

“The new black conservatives claim that transfer payments to the black needy engender a mentality of dependence which undercuts the value of…

— Cornel West