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Quotes About Welfare

Vito Marcantonio of New York, who argued on the House floor that "you have no right to use housing against civil rights. . . . Housing is advanced in the interest of the general welfare and in the interest of strength[en]ing democracy. When you separate civil rights from housing you weaken that general welfare.
~ Richard Rothstein
Vito Marcantonio of New York, who argued on the the House floor that "you have no right to use housing against civil rights...Housing is advanced in the interest of the general welfare and in the interest of strength[en]ing democracy. When you separate civil rights from housing you weaken that general welfare.
~ Richard Rothstein
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
the word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
certain feet were made for stepping on ,in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare and minimize the ancient insolence of office..
~ Robert A. Heinlein
conserving capital and insuring the welfare of children—the two basic societal functions for marriage everywhere
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We have had enough guesses; I'll state the obvious: Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage. And that is the one practical difference. He may fail in wisdom, he may lapse in civic virtue. But his average performance is enormously better than that of any other class of rulers in history.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The most important speaks to the issue of character and integrity, traits noted in many of his ERs. He was more concerned with the welfare of his men than with his own advancement, a rare trait in the Air Force and a sign of a great leader.
~ Robert Coram
For he that contributes only to his own welfare soon finds little to work for. He that contributes only to the welfare of others soon finds too much of others and has lost the appreciation of self, or of its ideals." (3478-2)
~ Kevin J. Todeschi
The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.
~ Tommy Douglas
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
~ John Amos Comenius
True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.
~ Henry Hazlitt
I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
~ Youssou N'Dour
without a social safety net and a modicum of economic equality, liberty is meaningless.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
governments could subsidize universal basic services rather than income.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
By the early 1990s, thinkers and politicians alike hailed "the End of History," confidently asserting that all the big political and economic questions of the past had been settled and that the refurbished liberal package of democracy, human rights, free markets, and government welfare services remained the only game in town.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
One new model gaining increasing attention is universal basic income.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Incluso Estados Unidos, ultracapitalista, se ha dado cuenta de que la protección de la libertad requiere al menos algunos servicios de bienestar facilitados por el gobierno. Los niños hambrientos no tienen libertades.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Its principal tenet is that economic growth is the supreme good, or at least a proxy for the supreme good, because justice, freedom and even happiness all depend on economic growth.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
al perder las masas su importancia económica y su poder político, el Estado podría a su vez perder al menos algunos de los incentivos para invertir en su salud, su educación y su bienestar
~ Yuval Noah Harari
After all, what we ultimately ought to protect is humans – not jobs.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
What's good for individual could be bad for society but what's good for society that will be good for individual and there is always need to choose what right for society because if it is right for society then it is right for individual."
~ Zaman Ali