Best 142 quotes in «welfare quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

... 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Private sincerity is a public welfare.

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

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

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

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.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

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

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.

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.

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

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship.

We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.

A ‘discouraged worker’ is someone of legal employment age who has stopped actively seeking employment because he or she has simply given up looking, hence the term ‘discouraged.’ Well I’m fucking discouraged at having to pay for the lazy sod!