#welfare

There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes them such favourite pets and brings upon them so many sorrows. ...Men will buy them ... and carry them off to all quarters of the native town, intending, I doubt not, to treat them kindly; but "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel", and confinement in a solitary cell, the discipline with which we reform hardened criminals, is misery enough to a bird with an active mind, without the superadded horrors of ... life in a tin case, hung from a nail in the wall of a dark shop... Why does the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals never look into the woes of parrots? ... However happy you make her captivity, imagination will carry her at times to the green field and blue sky, and she fancies herself somewhere near the sun, heading a long file of exultant companions in swift career through the whistling air. Then she opens her mouth and rings out a wild salute to all parrots in the far world below her. ↗

— E.H. Aitken

#captivity #intelligence #parrots #imagination

Even if only one person’s respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile. ↗

— Christopher Gerard

#animal-welfare #animals #animals-stories-heroism #respect

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#back #benefiting #border #burden #citizens

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#i #i see #only #people #see

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#always #children #focus #our #should

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#american #automation #basic #because #care

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#concern #congressional #difficulty #favor #given

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us. ↗

— Charles Evers

#ever #happened #person #speaking #thing

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#budget #defense #defense budget #first #get

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare. ↗

— John Kasich

#company #corporate #definition #exceed #give