Welfare Quotes

817 Welfare quotes by 578 unique authors

If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth. — Mos Def
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to… — Jacques Delors
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. — Jacques Delors
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. — Benjamin Disraeli
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A… — James Douglas
Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks… — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare… — Henry Van Dyke
I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. — Eminem
I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive. — Charles Evers
I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna… — Lupe Fiasco
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied. — Gary Hamel
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are… — Patricia Hewitt
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem. — Zora Neale Hurston
The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual. — Daisaku Ikeda
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and… — Andrew Johnson
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. — Helen Keller
If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector,… — Alveda King
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of… — Jack Kingston
Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number… — Rush Limbaugh
The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how… — Rush Limbaugh
We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it… — Susana Martinez
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. — Baron de Montesquieu
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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