Quotes About Welfare

For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good-will exert upon events in the political field. But however that may be, and whatever fate may have in store for us, yet we may rest assured that without the tireless efforts of those who are concerned with the welfare of humanity as a whole, the lot of mankind would be still worse than in fact it even now is.

What's government for if not to help those in need?' 'The Government help those in need?' I cried. 'My God, man! What country are you living in?

The conception of property has experienced a fundamental change. The individualistic conception of the State - a result of the liberal spirit- must give way to the concept that communal welfare precedes individual welfare.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything.

The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fi

Deleting welfare didn't eliminate poverty itself. We might as well have expected to conquer aging by overturning Social Security.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government

The happiness and prosperity of our citizens is the only legitimate object of government.

Whatever the form or constitution of government may be, it ought to have no other object than the general happiness.

The most effectual process is that of improving the condition of man by means of his interest.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites

For one of these responsibilities is to promote the welfare, including the spiritual welfare, of all created persons; God could no more choose to create persons without accepting that responsibility than human parents can choose to raise children without acquiring an obligation to promote their welfare.

The Amoghap??a Tantra states: "Wisdom" refers to enlightenment, while "heroic being" indicates skillful means; with these two, the welfare of sentient beings will be achieved.468

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

My biggest concern for the country is that many kids are now just looking at their parents who've lived on benefit and think that's the norm. It's so sad.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

The family court is extremely child focussed. Its overriding objective is to do what is in a child's best interests.