Welfare state Quote by Ivan Illich

“P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency”

— Ivan Illich

“P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition…

— Ivan Illich

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical…

— Alain de Botton

History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

— Larry Elder

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

— Anna Lindh

The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.

— Mark Steyn

“Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.”

— Stephen Richards

“Welfare bureaucracies claim a professional, political, and financial monopoly over the social imagination, setting standards of what is valuable and what is feasible. This…

— Ivan Illich

“More money less poverty. More greed more misery.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain…

— Tim Bishop

“The typical poverty program creates dependency, robs people of dignity, stifles initiative, and can foster a “What have you done for me lately?” sense…

— Barry Asmus