Welfare Quotes

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is - for people to be able to live.

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

The Nordic welfare model is in many aspects a good model but it needs more of a choice for individuals.

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.

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

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!

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

The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their supporters, it's corporate welfare, it's cronyism which is so destructive, particularly to the disadvantaged.

We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

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.

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

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

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

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.