Welfare Quotes

817 Welfare quotes by 578 unique authors

It’s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so… — J M Coetzee
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted… — Anthony Trollope
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. — Thomas Sowell
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be… — Michael Sandel
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his… — Theodore Roosevelt
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my… — Mahatma Gandhi
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the… — Abraham Lincoln
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us… — George Orwell
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways… — Wendell Berry
A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. — William Blake
A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes. — Ha-Joon Chang
Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest… — William Jennings Bryan
People think I built the Pack, because I'm the guy who has the welfare of all shapeshifters in mind. They're wrong. Everything I built, I… — Ilona Andrews
But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of… — Ron Paul
God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way. — Stephen Colbert
Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction. — Gary L. Francione
I do not think I exaggerate when I say that some of us put our offering in the plate with a kind of triumphant bounce… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Divorce is marital welfare.It’s just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn’t do enough research before they got married. — Stephen Colbert
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable… — Noam Chomsky
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no… — Shane Claiborne
There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War.… — George Packer
‎"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical… — Barry Goldwater
As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do… — Stephen King
No matter what happens in public—no matter what—don’t doubt that I love you and care about your welfare . . . as much as I… — Charlaine Harris

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