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Quotes About Welfare

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.
~ Manmohan Singh
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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
Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
~ John F. Kennedy
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.
~ Harvey Weinstein
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
~ Thomas Sowell
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.
~ Helle Thorning-Schmidt
The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.
~ Ryan Lindley
Welfare mothers make better lovers.
~ Neil Young
The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child.
~ Jean Ping
No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.
~ Chris Gardner
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
~ Herbert Spencer
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.
~ Wendell Berry
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare
~ Jonathan Mayhew
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
~ Harriet Martineau
Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare
~ Tony Juniper
Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.
~ Brene Brown
By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Welfare reforms and the whole "happy" exploitation movement are not "baby steps." They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.
~ Gary L. Francione
In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.
~ Tom Regan