#welfare

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised. ↗

— David Miliband

#centrally #education #housing #over #prescribed

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. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

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Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#eliminate #existence #far #need #own

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that. ↗

— Louie Anderson

#me #reminding #thanks #welfare #were

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#being #black #father #friends #getting

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. ↗

— Robert Casey

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