#welfare

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#because #believe #better #ever #finer

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

#expansion #family #family structure #generation #measure

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. ↗

— Alice Walker

#life

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#pride #welfare #family

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#animal-rights #animal-testing #animal-welfare #animals #cosmetics

We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity? ↗

— Janet Poppendieck

#general-welfare #government-programs #moral-responsibility #public-service #food

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals #attitude

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#beyond #congress #devotion #members #national

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. ↗

— William Vickrey

#evil #far #greater #greater evil #human

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#crime #fear #immigrants #increase #more