Welfare Quotes - Page 5

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Welfare is monetary methadone.

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth they devote to social welfare programs and the percentage they give in aid to the developing world.

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

Be genuinely concerned for the welfare and growth of others. Feel their strengths.

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. ... We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.

Welfare is not a retirement plan.

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

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

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person.