Welfare state Quote by Marc Reisner

Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.

— Martin Durkin

“What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a…

— Joan Didion

“Yet today, all over the developed world, welfare states are on shaky ground. The tax rates necessary to sustain the massive transfer programs are…

— David Boaz

“From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were all becoming less unequal. Thanks to progressive taxation, government…

— Tony Judt

“We are living now in what is known as the Welfare State, which means – broadly – that everybody is completely destitute.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“There are several dubious assumptions about the early West. One is that it was the home of intractable self-reliance amounting to anarchy, whereas in…

— Wallace Stegner

“We are faced this year with the choice between the "work ethic" that built this Nation's character and the new "welfare ethic" that could…

— Richard Nixon

“We must never forget that the settlement of what is now the United States was only part of a larger enterprise. And this was…

— Paul Johnson

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

— Thomas Sowell

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system…

— Emily Thornberry

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

— Ibn Warraq

Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital.

— Guy Standing