Welfare State Quotes - Page 2

• I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Research And Development, Community, Want

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• As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

  Henry Giroux

  Compassion, Culture, Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

  Herbert Spencer

  Silly, Humor, Men

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'State Tamperings with Money and Banks'

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• There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

  Jeb Bush

  Believe, Race, Ethnicity

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• A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Trying, Liberty

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• Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing.

  Leonard Read

  Egalitarianism, Labels, Nazism

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• A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.

  Nancy Birdsall

  Country, Book, Intelligent

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• Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have an how early they can retire and be supported by the state.

  Dennis Prager

  Vacation, Numbers, Citizens

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same as the capitalist welfare states that have existed in some European countries.

  Kshama Sawant

  Country, Different, World

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• There is a need to employ public memory, critical theory, and other intellectual archives and resources to expose the crimes of those market-driven criminogenc regimes of power that now run the commanding institutions of society, with particular emphasis on how they have transformed the welfare state into a warfare state.

  Henry Giroux

  Running, Memories, Intellectual

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.

  Ai Weiwei

  Jobs, Children, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

  Robert Kuttner

  Country, Government, West Germany

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.23, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.

  David Boaz

  Girl, Jobs, Children

  David Boaz (1997). “Libertarianism: A Primer”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

  Jobs, School, Proud

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• How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

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• In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Men, Parent

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• Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

  Gene Simmons

  Jobs, Believe, People

  "Parker Spitzer" with Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2010.

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• And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Rome, Civilization

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1976). “The coming breakpoint”, Not Avail

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• You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

  Milton Friedman

  Immigration, Welfare, States

  "Milton Friedman, Immigration, and the Welfare State" by Kerry Howley, reason.com. June 10, 2008.

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• The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Giving, Income

  "The More Given, the Less Earned" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

  William O. Douglas

  Upside Down, Socialism, Rich

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• Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

  Gregory Benford

  Welfare, Economics, Modern

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.445, Spectra

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• Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

  James Bovard

  People, Achievement, Welfare

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.81, Macmillan

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• The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.

  Martin Durkin

  Drug, Criminals, Generations

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• The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Goes On, Way

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