Welfare Quotes - Page 22

• Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

  Herbert Spencer

  Art, Musical, Ministers

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• The failure of market catallactics in no way denies the following truth: given sufficient knowledge the optimal decisions can always be found by scanning over all the attainable states of the world and selecting the one which according to the postulated ethical welfare function is best. The solution 'exists'; the problem is how to 'find' it.

  Paul Samuelson

  Decision, World, Way

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1966). “The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson”, p.1225, MIT Press

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• Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

  Pope Paul VI

  Children, Parent, Degrees

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• ...for the welfare of the whole world and the new world order.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Nwo, World Government, Order

  "Clinton Backs Drive Against Nuclear Arms in Mideast" by Douglas Jehl, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1995.

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• I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Wisdom, Party, Independent

  Retirement speech. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri), April 11, 1907.

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• In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

  Jon Krakauer

  Team, Climbing, Action

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

  Erwin Rommel

  Training, Troops, Firsts

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• I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

  DeForest Kelley

  Feelings, Comforting, Deep Feeling

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• The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing laborers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers. Then we create "social workers, " etc., to care for them and thereby establish a self-aggravating and permanent institutionalized phenomenon.

  Laurance Labadie

  Government, Self, Health Education

  Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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• The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.   The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Government, Black

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• Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little.care and thought about it.

  John Flavel

  Grateful, Forever, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 560), 1895.

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• Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Warrior, Training, Wake Up

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• Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

  Dennis Prager

  Citizens, Narcissistic, States

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

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• The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

  Dennis Prager

  May, States, Ponzi Scheme

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• The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

  Dennis Prager

  Adults, Citizens, Responsible

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

  Irving Kristol

  Conservative, States, Welfare State

  "Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead". Book by Irving Kristol, 1983.

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• We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are - the environment, your health, animal welfare - the answers are going to be different for every person.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, People, Giving

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• My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Heart, Humanity, Brotherhood

  The Progressive, February 2002.

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• By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.

  Spencer Bachus

  Home, Borders, Citizens

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• Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

  Tony Abbott

  Village, Bigger, Ifs

  "Tony Abbott joins Insiders". Cassidy, B., www.abc.net.au. May 24, 2009.

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• I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Way, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.

  Stephen Harper

  Proud, Canada, States

  Speech to the Council for National Policy, June 1997.

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• The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Europe, Growth

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.3, Regnery Publishing

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• I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field.... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, I tell you what: These doggone white people - not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.

  Phil Robertson

  Eye, Godly, White

  "What the Duck?". Interview with Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.

  R. C. Sproul

  Pride, Thinking, People

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