Welfare State Quotes
62 Welfare State quotes by 48 unique authors
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To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited…
— Robert Higgs
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Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich…
— Larry Elder
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Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity…
— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when…
— Lawrence Reed
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The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable.…
— Doug Bandow
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I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
— Ludwig von Mises
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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
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To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.
— George Mikes
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that…
— Maj Sjowall
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...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy…
— Noam Chomsky
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The future of Norway isn’t about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state and the only answer…
— Erna Solberg
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Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?
— C.S. Lewis
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The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron…
— Jacob G. Hornberger
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Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and…
— Ronald Reagan
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The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing…
— C.S. Lewis
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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
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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
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Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism…
— Dennis Prager
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In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In…
— Dennis Prager
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Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.
— Gene Simmons
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
— Thomas Sowell
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The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
— Thomas Sowell
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The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the…
— Thomas Sowell
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The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and…
— Thomas Sowell
Who Wrote These Welfare State Quotes
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