Accepted Quote by Henry Hazlitt

Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce the incentives…

— Henry Hazlitt

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the…

— Henry Hazlitt

The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it.…

— Shelton Smith

The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy…

— Grover Norquist

As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by…

— Pope Francis

We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade,…

— Bob Geldof

It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the…

— Ron Paul

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their…

— Thomas Sowell

What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they…

— Thomas Sowell

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

— Holly Near

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of…

— Mitt Romney