Quotes of: Social-welfare Keyword

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

Barbara Castle

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

Thomas Sowell

[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields." [ (1979)]

United Nations

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

David Cameron

What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

David Cameron

As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better

Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up existing customers on Facebook. Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and sup...

Ryan Holmes

Social systems are neither a consumer product that we can buy or rent from the market nor a material that we can import from another country. It is not a creation of the almighty gifted from the heavens. A social system is a creation of mankind. That...

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

William Weld

Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

Felicia Day

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Laura Riding

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)

The Social Contract

Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain.

Ryan Holmes

For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

Ryan Holmes

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

Siri Hustvedt

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

Kellie Elmore

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

Rachel Maddow

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Martin Sheen

Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.

Michael Perlis