Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a… — Ann Coulter 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
Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs. — Gene Simmons 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 welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. — 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
“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
When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor… — Jeremy Kyle 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
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
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 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 very welfare state the Occupy Wall Street protesters so eagerly applaud is what has saddled Greece with colossal debt and left… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
We live in a welfare state society - one that is already bloated and overburdened. We cannot continue to absorb and support… — Charlie Kirk 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
The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's… — Leonard Read 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 welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal… — Roger Scruton 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
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
“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
John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
“How did we get the 1960s? One is tempted to locate the ideological roots of this era in the 1930s. The expansion… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“The pre-Thatcher state had functioned on the understanding that there was such a thing as society. Governments on both sides of the… — J.M.R. Higgs 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
“Looking back to [Christendom's] youth, we recall the emotional stirrings, the deep sense of Christian purpose, when a temple, say, challenged the… — Harry Blamires 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
“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a… — Jon Weisman 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
I imagine the Wall Street protesters would embrace Greece's unusually generous benefits and massive welfare state, which were put in place by… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality.… — Dennis Prager 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
“Still, there is space for this secular movement that has become frustrated with the liberal experience. In my opinion, there is a… — Samir Kassir 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
The future of Norway isn’t about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state and… — Erna Solberg Copy Share Image
As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image