Quotes About Welfare

The eugenic family studies had a very pronounced influence on social policy and medical practice in the early twentieth century. Conservative politicians used them effectively as propaganda in their call to end all forms of welfare and private giving to the poor. The burgeoning medical and psychiatric establishments used them to enlarge their fields, resulting in the involuntary sterilization and forced institutionalization of large numbers of rural poor whites.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that's a wonderful idea. The problem is, we haven't been able to guarantee universal healthcare in this country.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Society can't function without shared prosperity.

I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

Una vida más larga sin duda representa una buena noticia para los individuos, pero es, en cambio, una mala noticia para el Estado del bienestar y los políticos que tienen que persuadir a los votantes de la necesidad de reformarlo. Hay, sin embargo, una noticia aún peor: el hecho de que, por más que la población mundial se haga más vieja, el propio mundo puede estar volviéndose al mismo tiempo un lugar más peligroso.

Nobody ever wants to see a guy get hurt, because this is how we feed our families.

I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won't help themselves, won't lift a finger, and expect the federal government to do everything.

When it comes to public services, I am firmly on the side of the public.

For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?

Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

Jesus taught that we should give to the poor and support widows, but he never said that we should elect a government that would take money from our neighbor's hand and give it to the poor.

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.