Welfare Quotes

817 Welfare quotes by 578 unique authors

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so… — Jerry Brown
Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably… — Larry Wall
Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people. — Daniel Schorr
Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or… — Cal Thomas
These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for… — Greg Mankiw
If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters:… — Sheri Holman
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social… — Friedrich List
My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make… — Unknown Author
The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism. — Ludwig von Mises
The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you. — Robert Breault
The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with them. Based on… — Yoshiko Sakurai
As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European countries rely on… — Dennis Prager
The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income… — Michael Tanner
Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt
We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another country, because they… — John Amos Comenius
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit… — Helen Keller
Genuine human friendship is on the basis of human affection, irrespective of your position. Therefore, the more you show concern about the welfare and rights… — Dalai Lama
The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a… — Learned Hand
Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who… — B.F. Skinner
Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole,… — Gloria Steinem
It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the… — Garrison Keillor
He who has learnt to control his tongue has attained self-control in a great measure. When such a person speaks he will be heard with… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going… — Elizabeth Hardwick

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