65 Welfare Quotes On Success In Life
These welfare quotes will inspire you. Welfare, the state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or prosperity must look out for your own welfare.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging welfare quotes, welfare sayings, and welfare proverbs.
Best Welfare Quotes
- “Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “If we develop concern for other people’s welfare, share other people’s
suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think only
of ourselves and forget about others, ultimately we will lose. The more
we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of
well-being becomes.” ~ Dalai Lama - “Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.” ~ Dalai Lama , Welfare quotes life
- “Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!” ~ John Hagee
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“The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “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
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“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.” ~ Edmund Burke
- “The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “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
- “We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “With respect to the words “general welfare,” I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” ~ James Madison
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“The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.” ~ Eddie Murphy
- “The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child.” ~ Jean Ping , Child welfare quotes
- “Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they’re really benefiting.” ~ Murray Rothbard
- “As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.” ~ Richard Gere
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“Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.” ~ Ralph Nader
- “The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.” ~ Baron de Montesquieu
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“The object of government is the welfare of the people.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “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
- “Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.” ~ Larry Elder
- “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
- “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.” ~ Albert Camus
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“No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.” ~ Murray Banks
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.” ~ William Howard Taft
- “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.
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“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
- “The sum total of each man’s giving determines the standard of man’s civilization.” ~ Walter Russell
- “Sooner or later we’ve got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.” ~ Jim Fowler
- “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
- “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
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“A socialist is somebody who doesn’t have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “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
- “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
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“Welfare is not a retirement plan.” ~ Ernie J Zelinski
- “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
- “We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women – or teenage girls – to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.” ~ David Boaz
- “The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system.” ~ Shelton Smith
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“We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.” ~ Rand Paul
- “Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat: these two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other.” ~ Frederic Bastiat
- “True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.” ~ Immanuel Kant
- “I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the promotion of the welfare of China, and an increase in her material prosperity without entanglements or creating embarrassment affecting the growth of her independent political power, and the preservation of her territorial integrity.” ~ William Howard Taft
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“Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society…” ~ Charles Koch
- “Why don’t Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama’s amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It’s hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren’t trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they’re intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can’t stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.” ~ Ann Coulter
- “We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.” ~ James Cook
- “In Europe there’s an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe… and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It’s hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.” ~ Joe Orton
