{"quotes":[{"text":"One of the most breathtaking concepts in all of Scripture is the revelation that God knows each of us personally and that we are in His mind both day and night. There is simply no way to comprehend the full implications of His love by the King of kings and Lord of lords. He is all-powerful and all-knowing, majestic and holy, from everlasting to everlasting. Why would He care about us—about our needs, our welfare, our fears? We have been discussing situations in which God doesn’t make sense. His concern for us mere mortals is the most inexplicable of all.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["about","all","all-knowing","all-powerful","and","are","both","breathtaking","by","care","comprehend","concepts","concern","day","discussing","doesn-t","each-of-us","everlasting","fears","full","god","his","holy","implications","in","inexplicable","is","king-of-kings","knows","lord-of-lords","love","majesting","make","mere","mind","mortals","most","needs","night","no","of","our","personally","revelation","scripture","sense","simply","situations","the","there","to","us","way","we","welfare","which","why","would"],"id":606,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"Too right things could be better, that’s my whole point. My going to work for the badge will not change that, will it?” Joanna said, “And Pride? There is absolutely no pride in being used and cast aside every twelve-weeks for someone equally replaceable. Do you see pride on the faces of people on Workplace? I don’t. I see worry, I see weariness, I see downcast men and women, shuffling to and from work, ridiculed at the shops when their badge has ran out, shouted down in the streets with insults like ‘badger’ and ‘scum’ for simply doing all they can to survive. Pride, I don’t see that, and you know what else I never see? Any fucking hope.","author":"Paul Howsley","tags":["anger","benefits","rights","welfare","workplace"],"id":3723,"author_id":"Paul+Howsley"},{"text":"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 doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["all-beings","belief","believe","doctrine","teachers","teaching","tradition","welfare"],"id":5820,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"},{"text":"During rough time in a Business, a Leader should act like a ship captain. His first and foremost priority should be to put his employees to security before thinking of his own welfare.","author":"Indy Bissessur","tags":["business","employees","leadership","motivational","office","welfare"],"id":10696,"author_id":"Indy+Bissessur"},{"text":"What’s interesting is that most free-marketers don’t seem to want a free market at all, but a status quo market. The market in the United States is anything but free. If it were, big business would have to survive without corporate welfare to the tune of about $1 trillion (that’s trillion) in government subsidies, the majority of which, about $650 billion, go to the fossil fuel industry! They are living off of the public dole on subsidies totaling billions of dollars—that we hand out either directly, or through tax breaks for their big corporations—with the false assumption that they are creating jobs. They are not. They are creating yachts, Leer Jets, and McMansions with swimming pools.","author":"Steve Bivans","tags":["greed","poverty","tax-breaks","wealth","welfare","yachts"],"id":13080,"author_id":"Steve+Bivans"},{"text":"Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and security of the general population for corporate gain.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","concerns","corporate","corporate-greed","corporate-profit","corruption","greed","greedy","health","human-life","plutocracy","population","powerful","rich","security","social-system","wealthy","welfare","white-collar","white-collar-crime"],"id":35180,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["anarchy","austrian-economics","austrian-school-of-economics","charity","coercion","communism","free-markets","freedom","libertarian","liberty","philosophy","socialism","statism","virtue","voluntaryism","welfare"],"id":43297,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"},{"text":"Everybody's entitled to that forty acres and a mule. You're going to do the work, but you have to have something to work with. If you don't have a job, where do you go from there? You hear people say Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and you don't even have shoes. You're barefooted. What are you going to pull yourself up by? Our country owes every citizen of the United States of America a means of livelihood. Not a handout, but a way to make it.","author":"Studs Terkel","tags":["bootstraps","entitlements","race","welfare"],"id":56186,"author_id":"Studs+Terkel"},{"text":"What’s interesting is that most free-marketers don’t seem to want a free market at all, but a status quo market. The market in the United States is anything but free. If it were, big business would have to survive without corporate welfare to the tune of about $1 trillion (that’s trillion) in government subsidies, the majority of which, about $650 billion, go to the fossil fuel industry! They are living off of the public dole on subsidies totaling billions of dollar—that we hand out either directly, or through tax breaks for their big corporations—with the false assumption that they are creating jobs. They are not. They are creating yachts, Leer Jets, and McMansions with swimming pools.","author":"Steve Bivans","tags":["greed","job-creation","poverty","tax-breaks","wealth","welfare","yachts"],"id":58121,"author_id":"Steve+Bivans"},{"text":"We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal products. After all, they are being assured by the “experts” that suffering is being decreased and they can buy “happy” meat, “free-range” eggs, etc.. These products even come with labels approved of by animal organizations. The animal welfare movement is actually encouraging the “compassionate” consumption of animal products.Animal welfare reforms do very little to increase the protection given to animal interests because of the economics involved: animals are property. They are things that have no intrinsic or moral value. This means that welfare standards, whether for animals used as foods, in experiments, or for any other purpose, will be low and linked to the level of welfare needed to exploit the animal in an economically efficient way for the particular purpose. Put simply, we generally protect animal interests only to the extent we get an economic benefit from doing so. The concept of “unnecessary” suffering is understood as that level of suffering that will frustrate the particular use. And that can be a great deal of suffering.Killing Animals and Making Animals Suffer | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["ahimsa","animal-products","animal-use","animals","diet","francione","humane","killing","nonhumans","nonviolence","peace","peace-loving","peaceful","veganism","welfare"],"id":65941,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}