Best 142 quotes in «welfare quotes» category

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

... in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is - for people to be able to live.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

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

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

Private sincerity is a public welfare.

People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own welfare.

Since Day 1, we have maintained that ours is a Government dedicated to the poor and will continue to work dedicatedly for the welfare of the poor.

The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

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

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

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

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

Those who abuse our welfare system will be priorities for immediate removal.

The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.

We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.