Welfare Quotes - Page 25

• Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that man is an inescapable part of all nature, that its welfare is his welfare, that to survive, he cannot continue acting and regarding himself as a spectator looking on from somewhere outside.

  Fred Bodsworth

  Book, Animal, Men

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• Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

  Alexis De Veaux

  School, Want, Poverty

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• I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Unity, World

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government's assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors' needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

  Doug Bandow

  Responsibility, Availability, Impact

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• Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner insecurity and immaturity continually demand the demarcation of limits and postures of intimidation.

  Christa Wolf

  Fighting, People, Insecurity

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• If sheep do not have the constant care of a shepherd, they will go the wrong way, unaware of the dangers at hand. They have been known to nibble themselves right off the side of a mountain..... And so, because sheep are sheep, they need shepherds to care for them. The welfare of sheep depends solely upon the care they get from their shepherd. Therefore, the better the shepherd, the healthier the sheep.

  Kay Arthur

  Sheep, Hands, Mountain

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• Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Character, Feelings

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.7, Full Moon Publications

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• And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Ends

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• Perhaps they put party loyalty ahead of the welfare of their constituents, are afraid of crossing the president or are as stupid as Mr. Gruber thinks the American people are.

  Jack Kelly

  Loyalty, Stupid, Party

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• We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings, so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent thanks to God.

  Harry S. Truman

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Grateful

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• Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Individual Happiness, Castes

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4615, Manonmani Publishers

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• I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Three, Slave

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• My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of 'We, the People,' instead of 'We, the States'?

  Patrick Henry

  People, Political, Curiosity

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• Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

  Howie Carr

  Thinking, Trying, Attention

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• It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

  Charles Edison

  Party, Organization, Issues

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• I don't believe in welfare.

  Charles Evers

  Believe, Don't Believe

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

  Charles Evers

  Funny, Black, Worst

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• Welfare mothers make better lovers.

  Neil Young

  Mother, Quality, Lovers

  Song: Welfare Mothers

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• ...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Practice, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.64, Soft Skull Press

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• Came out my mama's pussy, I'm on welfare. Twenty-six years old, still on welfare.

  Ol' Dirty Bastard

  Years, Pussy, Politics

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• To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Mouths, Politics, Ten

  Song: Calling Mr. Welfare, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing

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• The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Needs, Citizens

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.480, Best Books on

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• Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Teacher, Children, School

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• People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Sacrifice, People, Safety

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Japan, Desire

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