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“In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.”

Men Littles States Philosophy Mass Dignity Method Leaving Communism Welfare Wheels Spite Glowing Cogs Leaving Him

Book:I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.”

States Philosophy Differences Principles Economy Economic Socialism Communism Welfare Fascism Nazism Welfare State Communism And Fascism

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.”

World Needs Mean Children Littles Doe Philosophy Culture Moral Wife Dangerous Source Healthy Concern Gender Welfare Guidance Tension Gender Equality Degrade Healthy Family Slappers

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.”

People Ends States Philosophy Jobs Social Creating Currents Welfare Welfare State Dead Ends

Book:The Thomas Sowell Reader

Source: The Thomas Sowell Reader

“Doing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully as you spend your own. So a large fraction of that money is inevitably wasted. In the second place, and equally important, you cannot do good with other people's money unless you first get the money away from them. So that force - sending a policeman to take the money from somebody's pocket - is fundamentally at the basis of the philosophy of the welfare state.”

People Firsts Two Important States Philosophy Force Bases Welfare Pockets Flaws Policemen Doing Good Fractions Welfare State Second Place

Book:Tax limitation, inflation and the role of government

Source: Tax limitation, inflation and the role of government

“We shared a philosophy together [with June Hillary]. We believed very strongly in the welfare of helping other people, particularly the Third World people.”

People World Philosophy Helping Together Thirds Helping Others Welfare Very Strong June Third World Helping Other People

Author:Edmund Hillary