Social Quotes - Page 21

• We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.

  James Cook

  Problem, Welfare, Solve

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• Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

  James Cook

  Gathering, Stranger, Conversation

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• Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

  John Stossel

  Running, Government, Scams

  "Madoff Is a Piker" by John Stossel, townhall.com. January 7, 2009.

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• [We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

  Mark Steyn

  Progress, Liberty, Assuming

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.208, Regnery Publishing

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• "Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

  Mark Steyn

  Republican, Schwarzenegger, Burying

  Mark Steyn (2011). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.236, Regnery Publishing

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• If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration. He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Thinking, Appreciate

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.129, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past.

  William Graham Sumner

  Past, Doctors, Numbers

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.102, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Feelings, Suffering, Tools

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• The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Principles, Individualism

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• Once we realize that government doesn't work, we will stop dreaming that this or that social problem can be solved by passing a law - or by creating a new government program - or by electing someone who will make Washington more efficient or cost-conscious.

  Harry Browne

  Dream, Government, Law

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• The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Doe, Too Much

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.126, Regnery Publishing

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• The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved.

  Mona Charen

  Running, Children, Judging

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• Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.

  James Cook

  Believe, Government, Giving

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• The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Thinking, People, Historical

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• Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.

  Mona Charen

  Country, America, Political

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

  Joseph Sobran

  Loyalty, Mean, Independence

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• Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Ghetto, Two

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• There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Philosophy, Creating

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.40, Basic Books

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• Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

  Charles A. Murray

  Drug, Important, Poverty

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• Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Creating, Problem

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• The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment, social resentment, discontent, upheaval and riots, bankruptcy, increased government controls, and eventual collapse.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Gambling, Government, Growth

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.136, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Education Secretary Arne Duncan spurned the opportunity to condemn thousands of Wisconsin public school teachers for lying about being 'sick' and shutting down at least eight school districts across the state to attend capitol protests (many of whom dragged their students on a social justice field trip with them). Instead, Duncan defended teachers for 'doing probably the most important work in society.' Only striking government teachers could win federal praise for not doing their jobs.

  Michelle Malkin

  Teacher, Jobs, Lying

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• The legacy of the New Del was, more than anything else, a matter of ideological change. Henceforth, nearly everyone would look to the federal government for solutions to problems great and small, real and imagined, personal as well as social.

  Robert Higgs

  Real, Government, Legacy

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• So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The concentrate in areas like social studies, literature, and art - where opinion reigns supreme. And I find their opinions almost universally appalling.

  Doug Casey

  Art, Ideas, Literature

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• No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  War, Drug, Matter

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