Failure Quote by Studs Terkel

“The problem of the social reformer, therefore, is not merely to seek means of security, for if these means when found provide no deep…

— Bertrand Russell

“We are all brothers, but I live on a salary paid me for prosecuting, judging, and condemning the thief or the prostitute whose existence…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.”

— Louis Guanella

“You may not have all you could wish for, but you still have more than you deserve. Your circumstances are not what they might…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“It is important to note that the Great Reversal preceded the rise of the welfare state in America. Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty did…

— Steve Corbett

“This is a Christian country, my dear brother, and the wages of sin are supposed to be death, not eight bob of the taxpayers’…

— P.D. James

Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.

— Stephen Moore

“Extremes of wealth and poverty are a scandal to Christian brotherhood. They must not be allowed.”

— Richard J. Foster

“The reality is that Social Security is not a government handout. It is a benefit that is earned and paid for through hard work.”

— David Cay Johnston

“a basic income is arguably more justified by the need for economic security than by a desire to eradicate poverty. Martin Luther King captured…

— Guy Standing

Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.

— Donald Soper, Baron Soper

“For the first time he began to understand why Jesus had such compassion for the poor. Jesus could identify with them because they were…

— Joseph F. Girzone