Social Quotes - Page 23

• Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.

  Addison Wiggin

  Real, Debt, United States

  Addison Wiggin (2005). “The Demise of the Dollar... and Why It's Great For Your Investments”, Wiley

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• The Pseudo-liberals monopolize the teaching jobs at many universities. Only men who agree with them are appointed as teachers and instructors of the social sciences, and only textbooks supporting their ideas are used.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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• America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Nike, America, Justice

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• The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

  James Cook

  People, Behavior, Economic

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• Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

  James Cook

  Cheating, Lying, Integrity

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• Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Opposites, Peaceful

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• The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Competition, Economic, Function

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• The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is unnecessary and evil, what abridges the liberty and threatens the true welfare of the individual, is the State that has usurped excessive powers and grown beyond its legitimate function - the super-State, the socialist State, the redistributive State, in brief, the ironically misnamed 'Welfare State.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  Order, Law, Evil

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.195, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of his fellow-men. The market alone puts the whole social system of private ownership of the means of production and free enterprise in order and provides it with sense and meaning.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Men, Order

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.

  Kurt Richebacher

  People, Decay, Financial

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• Social Security is a fraudulent scheme in which the government collect money from you for your retirement - and immediately spend the money on something else.

  Harry Browne

  Retirement, Government, Schemes

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• Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these people are not 'disabled' as that term is generally understood. Rather, it's the U.S. economy that's disabled, and thus Obama incentivizes dependency.

  Mark Steyn

  Jobs, People, New Job

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• Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ghetto, Race, Poverty

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• I'm not in favor of privatizing Social Security or making cuts.

  Mitt Romney

  Cutting, Favors, Security

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• The president (George W. Bush) says let's have private accounts, and take the surplus money that's being gathered now in Social Security and put it into private accounts. That works.

  Mitt Romney

  President, Surplus, Accounts

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• No one is talking about restructuring Social Security or Medicare for current retirees or for those that are near retirement. For those under 55, the answer is let's talk about it.

  Mitt Romney

  Retirement, Talking, Answers

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• An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find that at the counters, desk or benches they will be forced to work, side by side, with all types of people of all races; that in the lunchrooms, rest rooms, recreation rooms, they will be compelled by law to mingle with persons and races which all their lives they have by free choice, avoided in social and business intercourse.

  Strom Thurmond

  Race, Law, People

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• Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that don't measure crucial factors are the ones who have closed minds. Sometimes the Bible gives us clear answers and sometimes it doesn't, but it always helps us to ask the right questions.

  Marvin Olasky

  Biblical, Giving, Mind

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• It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this Jesus character was - a prophet? The Messiah? The Son of God? No, there is one thing that connected all these dissimilar people together it was a shared sense of need: a hunger, a thirst, a longing. It was the certainty that, when Jesus said He came for the sick, this meant Jesus came for me.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Character, Son

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

  Milton Friedman

  Responsibility, Profit, Company

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• Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Simple, Talking, Want

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• Many people in my constituency come to see me absolutely distraught at the prospect of losing their private rented flat because of the imposition of a housing benefit cut. Social cleansing is going on in all of central London because of the benefit cap. That is a disgraceful situation.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Cutting, People, London

  "West Coast Rail Franchise". House of Commons meeting, Oral Answers to Questions, publications.parliament.uk. December 6, 2012.

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• Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.

  Ron Paul

  Military, Government, Class

  "The Revolution: A Manifesto". Book by Ron Paul, 2008.

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• I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Lessons, Way

  "Religion and Atheism". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2012.

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• The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.

  John Hardon

  Children, Law, World

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