Good intentions Quote by 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

Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but…

— Ludwig von Mises

Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success:…

— Niall Ferguson

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

— Daniel Keys Moran

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

— Ha-Joon Chang

The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of…

— Thomas Sowell

If a state indicts good into their system and law then only good should come from it. Therefore if things are good there is…

— Anonymous

The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest,…

— Martin Durkin

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

— James Surowiecki

A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

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

— Joseph Sobran