Thomas Sowell Quotes

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

The lottery is a government institution & the poor its best patrons.

There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside.

We have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, where we put people in bondage so they can't be all that they're capable of being.

I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies have always been with the struggling mass.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

We've got to take care of the poor.

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.