#elites

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#egos #elites #masses #really #state

In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna--a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night--to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#god #israelites #providence #faith

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#been #collecting #elites #equitable #especially

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#israelites #misfortune #proportion #russia #same

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people. ↗

— Paul Harvey

#agencies #aid #attitudes #come #dependency

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#elites #get #got #islam #islamists

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#country #elites #every #fact #making

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#autocratic #centralized #control #democracy #economic

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#elites #europe #european #european union #impose

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#agents #been #between #business #commercial