Welfare Quotes - Page 28

• We need to surrender our attachments to government in every aspect of life. We need to give up our dependencies on the state, materially and spiritually. We should not look to the state to provide us financially or psychologically. Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens.

  Ron Paul

  Giving Up, War, Believe

  "Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom". Book by Ron Paul, www.usnews.com. April 2011.

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• Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Tyrants, Law, People

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• If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger and hatred is likely to be destructive. It will only be beneficial if we seek the welfare of all beings. Human beings are the only species with the potential to destroy the world. Because of the risks of unrestrained desire and greed we need to cultivate contentment and simplicity.

  Dalai Lama

  Technology, Hatred, Greed

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• While anyone who practices a religion has the right to their own religious truths, it doesn't give them the right to violate the welfare of another human or an animal. So, where necessary, it is the task of the government to intervene and curb the freedom of religion.

  Marianne Thieme

  Religious, Animal, Government

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• Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

  Ronald Reagan

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Reality

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Law, Laughing

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• There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of woman is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing.
  There is no hope for that family or country where there is no estimation of women, where they live in sadness. For this reason, they have to be raised first.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Sadness, Wings

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• There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Compassion, Groups

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• [T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

  John Dewey

  School, Skills, Competition

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• Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

  James L. Buckley

  Running, Temptation, Soul

  James L Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.90, Encounter Books

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• I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.

  Ian Wilmut

  Engineering, Ideas, Would Be

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• What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a
  moderate extent, the money is taken away.

  Thomas Sowell

  Taken, People, Succeed

  TV Series "Free to Choose" with Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman, 1980.

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• A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Thinking, Fog, Bridges

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• "Jobs for every American" is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

  Jerry Brown

  Jobs, Talking, Automation

  "Jerry Brown Speaks Out on Welfare Reform: 'That's the Way I See It'". Jerry Brown's "We the People" talk show in the Pacifica Radio station, February/March 1995.

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• Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

  Larry Wall

  Doubt, Code, Persons

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• Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or at least self-sustaining, but this president never talks about how they might achieve that goal. Instead, he criticizes those who made the right choices and now enjoy the fruits of their labor. Rather than use successful people as examples for the poor to follow, the president seeks to punish the rich with higher taxes and more regulations on their businesses.

  Cal Thomas

  Heart, Successful, Self

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• These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

  Greg Mankiw

  Jobs, Teenager, School

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• If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.

  Sheri Holman

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

  Friedrich List

  Individual, Social, Exertion

  Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin (1931). “Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie”

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• My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

  Moby

  Mother, Ethos, Trying

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick and Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Steps, Socialism, Economy

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• The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

  Robert Breault

  Taken, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with them. Based on the people's respect and adoration for the Emperor, the Japanese people have stayed united. That is the essence of Japan's national heritage, I believe.

  Yoshiko Sakurai

  Believe, Japan, Essence

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• As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European countries rely on America to fight the world's evil, and even to defend them

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Strong, Military

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens
  the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.

  Peter Drucker

  Government, Hands, Safety

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order”, p.333, Transaction Publishers

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