Welfare Quotes - Page 2

• In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Art, Book

  William Graham Sumner, (2013). “Folkways - A Study Of The Sociological Importance Of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores And Morals”, p.251, Read Books Ltd

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

  Brigham Young

  Love Is, Men, Gold

  7 Copy quote

• We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

  Rand Paul

  Cutting, Safety, Pennies

  55 Copy quote

• The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

  Edward Thorndike

  Mean, May, Pleasure

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.325, Routledge

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

  Helen Keller

  Women, Responsibility, People

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.111, Matthew Gordon

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.101, Vintage

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

  James H. Douglas

  Retirement, Jobs, Home

  11 Copy quote

• Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour

  Robert Owen

  Happiness, Country, Children

  Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7

  139 Copy quote

  Show source

• The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.

  Alan Greenspan

  Mean, Rights, Understanding

  "Alan Greenspan wants the US to go back on the gold standard" by Bill Bonner, www.businessinsider.com. July 10, 2016.

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Believe, Buddhism

  8 Copy quote

• A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Humor, Debt, Socialism

  191 Copy quote

• We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

  Will Rogers

  Peculiar, Hog

  7 Copy quote

• The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Civilization, Giving

  8 Copy quote

• Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

  Jim Fowler

  Ties, World, Saving

  7 Copy quote

• Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

  Daniel Schorr

  People, Abuse, Newts

  7 Copy quote

• The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

  Jim Fowler

  Nature, Thinking, Space

  36 Copy quote

• Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

  Jack Kingston

  Love, Children, Husband

  45 Copy quote

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

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Republican, Platforms

  William Howard Taft (1910). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

  R. Edward Freeman

  Animal, Race, Faithful

  55 Copy quote

• Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Poison, Abnormal, Problem

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Buddhist, Believe

  48 Copy quote

• Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Mother, Baby, New York

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.107, New York Review of Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The object of government is the welfare of the people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, People, Objects

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.59, Taylor Trade Publications

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.85

  155 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

  Edmund Burke

  Errors, Liberty, Grumbling

  'Observations on...the Present State of the Nation' (1769)

  97 Copy quote

  Show source