Welfare Quotes

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

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

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

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

The welfare state is an assault on families.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

Welfare is monetary methadone.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

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

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

I think our biggest problem in society is we're headed more and more toward a two-tiered society. That is, creating welfare for the wealthy and destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged.

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...

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

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

Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

Welfare is not a retirement plan.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

...for the welfare of the whole world and the new world order.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

New Living Translation And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

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

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

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and 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.

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

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

The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.