“The greatest beneficiaries of the modern welfare state, after all, were the middle classes.”
Tony Judt (1948–2010) British historian
Chap. 14 : Diminished Expectations
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005)
“The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.”
The Hessian Courier (1834)
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“there is an efficiency case for an institutional welfare state.”
Nicholas Barr (1943) British economist
Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 4, State Intervention, p. 93
“In the welfare state, experience teaches nothing.”
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
A Murderess’s Tale http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_1_oh_to_be.html (Winter 2005). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)
Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1987/feb/05/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral in the House of Commons (5 February 1987). <br class="br">1980s
Nicholas Barr (1943) British economist
Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 15, Conclusion, p. 359
Robert L. Heilbroner (1919–2005) American historian and economist
Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter IV, Part 1, A Recapitulation, p. 177
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.”
Gregory Benford book Timescape
Source: Timescape (1980), Chapter 43 (p. 445)
“Every advocate of the welfare state and of planning is a potential dictator.”
Ludwig von Mises book Socialism
Socialism (1922), Epilogue (1947)
Context: In fact, however, the supporters of the welfare state are utterly anti-social and intolerant zealots. For their ideology tacitly implies that the government will exactly execute what they themselves deem right and beneficial. They entirely disregard the possibility that there could arise disagreement with regard to the question of what is right and expedient and what is not. They advocate enlightened despotism, but they are convinced that the enlightened despot will in every detail comply with their own opinion concerning the measures to be adopted. They favour planning, but what they have in mind is exclusively their own plan, not those of other people. They want to exterminate all opponents, that is, all those who disagree with them. They are utterly intolerant and are not prepared to allow any discussion. Every advocate of the welfare state and of planning is a potential dictator. What he plans is to deprive all other men of all their rights, and to establish his own and his friends' unrestricted omnipotence. He refuses to convince his fellow-citizens. He prefers to "liquidate" them. He scorns the "bourgeois" society that worships law and legal procedure. He himself worships violence and bloodshed.
Peter Singer (1946) Australian philosopher
Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 4, Reason, p. 120