Welfare Quotes - Page 37

• Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Issues, People

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

  Douglas Massey

  Government, People, Use

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants.

  Paul Achleitner

  Children, Long, Getting Older

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

  Arnold Kling

  Believe, Income, Disease

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• Be genuinely concerned for the welfare and growth of others. Feel their strengths.

  Leon Nacson

  Growth, Feels, Concerned

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• Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

  Harry S. Truman

  Children, Important, Our Children

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1962). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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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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• If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.

  Keith Olbermann

  Party, Heart, Reality

  "Keith Olbermann Returns With Special Comment: GOP Self-Destruction, Driving ‘Political Toyota’" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

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• As long as we place millions of Indians at the centre of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self-realisation we are on the right track.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Opportunity, Thinking, Self

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• There are definitely some people who cheat, but how come we're only focusing on people who are on welfare who cheat, and not the bank presidents who cheat?

  Howard Dean

  People, President, Cheat

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• The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole nation ardently dispensing the general welfare, but I think it nonetheless true.

  Murray Rothbard

  Thinking, Natural, States

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• And he said that 47%-that's pretty high-47% of Americans are basically welfare bums who are mooching off the government. And then he said, 'My job is not to worry about those people.' You know, where do people get this stuff that Mitt Romney is a heartless, calculating c**ksucker?

  Bill Maher

  Jobs, Government, People

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• We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  People, Desire, Genuine

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• Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)

  Obert C. Tanner

  Attitude, Rooms, Earth

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• While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Order, Gdp, Elements

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• Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Men, Saint

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• The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

  David Boaz

  Children, Motherhood, Way

  David Boaz (2010). “Libertarianism”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Race, Order, Population

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• The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the people's welfare: their employment, their old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his wholeness; he is dispossessed of responsibility for self, the very essence of his manhood. The more dependent he becomes, the less dependable!

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Men, Essence

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• Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies.

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Government, Citizens

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• Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.

  Leonard Read

  Police, Tools, Coercion

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• Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Government, People

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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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• The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.

  James Bovard

  Government, Order, Numbers

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.137, Macmillan

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• The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Citizens, Incentives

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