Alleviate Quote by Iain Duncan Smith

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently…

— Charles A. Murray

The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to…

— Ross Kemp

Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the capitalist system,…

— 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

“There is, in the circumstances of modern life, only one solution to the problem of resentment, and that is social mobility. The worst thing…

— Roger Scruton

“Throughout history, societies have suffered from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then…

— Anonymous

The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy…

— Rebecca Solnit

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

— Sue Townsend

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

— Trevor Paglen

This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.

— Joseph Smith, Jr