Welfare Quotes - Page 6

Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Congress's legislative time.

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part.

I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices.

Everyone is now a customer or client, and every relationship is ultimately judged in bottom-line, cost-effective terms. Freedom is no longer about equality, social justice, or the public welfare, but about the trade in goods, financial capital, and commodities.

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.

I don't believe in welfare.

There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

Fidel Castro was not interested in personal enrichment. His supporters say he deployed his enormous authority on behalf of health, education and welfare programs that brought Cuba attention around the world.

In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald] Reagan administration is withdrawing assistance, all kinds of welfare programs, and if people don't improvise their own resources to cope with problems of the ageing, problems of the sick, problems of the young, problems of the poor, problems of tenant rights, who will?

The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.