Anesthetics Quote by Paulo Freire

The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically wrong: forcing…

— Joseph Sobran

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members…

— Alan Greenspan

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

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants…

— Albert Camus

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

— Martin Durkin

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and…

— Andrew Sullivan

With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take…

— James Madison

In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared…

— Murray Bookchin

We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary…

— Michael Portillo

Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases…

— Thomas Sowell

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. ... The general welfare cannot be provided for…

— Calvin Coolidge

Government welfare programs contribute to the disintegration of poor families. They make women and children dependent on government; dependent for food, for clothing, for…

— Hans F. Sennholz