Become Quote by Guy Standing

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

— Muhammad Yunus

If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be…

— Guy Standing

That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

— John Kasich

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

— Joseph Stalin

Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives.

— Rutger Bregman

“I'm not lazy, I am motivationally disadvantaged”

— Stuart S Laing

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

— Charles Evers

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

— Guy Standing

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

— John Kasich

Poverty is a choice lazy people make.

— Chizim

You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't fit the…

— Charles Murray

A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.

— Oren Etzioni