Best 142 quotes in «welfare quotes» category

You say, "There are men who have no money," and you apply the law. But the law is not a self-supplied fountain, whence every stream may obtain supplies independtly of society. Nothing can enter the public treasury, in favor of one citizen or one class, but what other citizens and other classes have been forced to send to it.

After all, Bill Clinton is the guy that signed welfare reform.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

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

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.

G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.

Fear is intensified by passionate love. The more I care about someone, the more I'm concerned about their welfare. The less we have to lose, in one sense, the easier it is to be "brave.

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

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

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

... 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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

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