"The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government's assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors' needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior."

-- Doug Bandow

#Responsibility Quotes #Government Quotes #Organization Quotes

“My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.”
“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”
“When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.”
“Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.”
“Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!”
“We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.456, Pan Macmillan
“Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.”
“Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.”

Source : Fanny Fern (1872). “Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things”, p.15

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