Quotes of: Welfare-state Keyword

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client state...

Martin Jacques

Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctri...

Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rath...

Anna Karenina

Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of sects of this kind among the populace of large cities; he feared for the welfare of our ancient religions, which yoke men to no dogma whatsoever, but ...

Memoirs of Hadrian

Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets, fo...

Man Made Language

Maggie Fitzgerald: Momma, you take Mardell and JD and get home 'fore I tell that lawyer there that you were so worried about your welfare you never signed those house papers like you were supposed to. So anytime I feel like it I can sell that house f...

Million Dollar Baby

- A mother, a real mother with a little child, thinks day and night about the welfare of the little one in her arms. A mother knows what dangers the child will have to encounter as he grows up. She does not let the father reassure her when he makes l...

Love

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get some...

William Jennings Bryan

The Zionists accepted the partition plan. The AHC and the Arab states rejected any proposal to share the land and vowed to drown the fledging Jewish state in rivers of blood.

A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred

Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

Democracy in America

Every GI signs a blank check, payable to the United States, drawn in an amount up to and including his life.

Hamfist Over the Trail: The Air Combat Adventures of Hamilton Hamfist Hancock

Relaxation is… a state between waking and sleeping, where the body is completely still and the mind is allowed to flow freely from one thought to another, or alternately, a state in which the mind becomes inadvertently calm.

Baby Steps to Meditation

Concentration is… a relaxed mental state, where the stream of consciousness flows in a single direction, either focusing on a phrase or mental picture, or alternately, a state in which the mind is alert and aware.

Baby Steps to Meditation

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of stat...

Donald Bren

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us.. the worst part is we can't say who is who

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

You are significantly more likely to die in a car accident, especially if you fail to wear a seat belt, than to be attacked by ISIS. Wear your seat belt

ISIS: The State of Terror

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

Lords and Ladies

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches