Best 142 quotes in «welfare quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

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.

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.

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

Private sincerity is a public 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a system will eventually collapse once its true light is discovered by the masses. Though some say that capitalism is a modern system, corruption has been the source for the demise of every great civilization.

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

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

Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.