Quotes About Welfare

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically, in American history, the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it—this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed.

When he was with a woman, he saw to her welfare with the easy authority of a man who believed it was his responsibility to look after her.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

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.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

She had thought so much about this baby, of its welfare, its soul, its morals, its probable defects. But, like most unmarried people, she had only thought of it as a word — just as the healthy man only thinks of the word death, not of death itself. The real thing, lying asleep on a dirty rug, disconcerted her.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The poor shall never cease out of the land.

Pro bono publico [For the public good].

Her service to others had done more for her spiritual welfare all the outward display of congregational religion, which so is but outward display.

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

I'd actually call myself pretty much a liberal. A progressive liberal. Because I do think that government is there to be a provider of services for people who cannot provide for themselves.

Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.

Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Well, puppy mills are - it's just a name given to really, really bad dog breeding facilities and sadly, we have a lot of them in this country.

I do think that people deserve a basic economic floor so the bottom doesn't fall out under them.

I do find it funny, actually, why I'm not more of a Corbyn fan. I am a classic Corbyn fan, really. Not so much on the foreign policy, but I'm leftwing, pro-immigration, pro-welfare spending, there's very little that we wouldn't agree on.

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.

Two years before, a rival claimant to the throne had assassinated the then reigning king and his sons, and since then, bloody war and tumult had raged. The new king was a powerful man, and had a great following of the worst and most self-seeking of the people. Neighboring countries had interfered for their own welfare's sake

Fremen possessed a highly evolved conscience which centered on their own welfare as a people. It was only to outsiders that they seemed brutish—just as outsiders appeared brutish to Fremen. Every Fremen knew very well that he could do a brutal thing and feel no guilt.