Above Quote by Ben Shapiro

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal…

— George Gilder

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

— Paul Simon

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease…

— Arnold Kling

The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy…

— Grover Norquist

God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.

— Anonymous

The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is…

— Henry Hazlitt

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

— Max Lucado

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members…

— Alan Greenspan

The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of…

— Thomas Sowell

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 world's biggest,…

— Martin Durkin

“Poverty is a state whose feature is generosity.”

— Albert Camus

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

— J. C. Ryle