Quotes About Welfare

There are more avid postage stamp collectors in the United States than welfare recipients.

Loka somasta sukhino bhavantu: may all beings, everywhere, be happy and free

Welfare states come in different shapes and sizes; they are constructed on diverging conceptions of social rights and duties; some stress equality and solidarity, others freedom; and the range of policy objectives is vast and widely dissimilar.

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.

if we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're human beings, and they want high services, low taxes, and an omnipresent, omniprominent welfare state.

no one can be compelled by law to be beneficent (though he may be taxed and this money then distributed in welfare payments)

Eventually, it had to be accepted that God had created invisible stars and this was the very first hint that perhaps the Universe had not been created with human welfare as its primary object (a point I have never seen stressed in histories of science)

Universal Credit claimants who refuse to accept a zero hours contract job offer, without good reason, can be subject to a sanction.

I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

I have come from outside Delhi, but I give you an assurance that the people in the Government are very capable. I want to awaken and unite that power for the welfare of nation.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.'

They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes—they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out—they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps.

Sexual selection will also be largely dominated by natural selection tending towards the general welfare of the species.

Animals shouldn't be mistreated.

In short, the welfare state vision is not simply a theory to be tested empirically but a cause to be promoted and defended, ostensibly for the benefit of the less fortunate. But