Thomas Sowell Welfare Quotations

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.