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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare… — Thomas Sowell 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
Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a grovelling dependent class from which… — Edward Britton 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 ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t… — Michele Bachmann 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
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
“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
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
The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of… — Cornel West 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
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
“The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown… — Barack Obama 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
Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic… — Andrew Sullivan 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
The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the… — Martin Durkin Copy Share Image
“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
The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The stabilizing influence of the modern social welfare state emerged only after World War II, nearly 200 years on from the 18th-century… — Moshe Vardi 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
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 has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up… — John Stossel 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
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
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
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
From Scotland to India, and from Silicon Valley to Kenya, policymakers all over the world have become interested in basic income as… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
![“We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What did we call Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher? When she was minister of education, she stopped the children's free school milk. This may sound quaint, but after the war we were such a…” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/622/hilary-mantel-440_angela_we-have-a-number-of-very-powerful-women_2855047.jpg)
![“[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.” quote by Michael Palin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e7/michael-palin-7172_alive_there-are-people-who-make-a-complete-and_1020436.jpg)
