Top 30 No More Handouts Quotes
#1. Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.
Leila Janah
#2. I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
Adam McKay
#3. People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#4. More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or from themselves. Increased handouts to selected groups mean merely increased taxes, or increased deficits and increased inflation.
Henry Hazlitt
#5. There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you."
Walter E. Williams
#6. The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.
Pauline Hanson
#8. America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.
Ronald Reagan
#9. One of Obama's greatest failures will be his legacy of making millions completely dependent on government handouts, not work ... So sad.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#10. The [Barack] Obama administration has both their hands in your pocket. They're trying to take every hard dollar you make to give it out in handouts to buy votes.
Ted Cruz
#11. This country was not built... by men who sought handouts. John Galt speech, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Alex Ayres
#12. What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.
Glenn Beck
#13. Justice not charity, solidarity not pity, opportunity not handouts.
Samantha Nutt
#14. The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.
Michel Martelly
#15. I grew up in different orphanages in Israel, and if they gave me a pair of shoes, a shirt, and pair of pants every year, I was lucky. The rest was handouts, leftover clothes. So I appreciated clothes because I only had one new shirt each year.
Elie Tahari
#16. I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.
Ishmael Reed
#17. When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.
Robert Reich
#18. Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.
Paul LePage
#19. As for asking favors or handouts, no.'
But you'll take them from a stranger.'
He looked me straight in the eye. 'The stranger can keep going and pretend not to hear.
Raymond Chandler
#20. I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
Rainn Wilson
#21. I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.
Jesse Johnson
#22. Dear FB Friends,
Fuck Facebook!!!!! - It has proven to be worthless as a book-selling device, and is nothing but a repository for perverts, reparation-seekers, old buddies looking for handouts, syphillitic ex-girlfriends looking for extra-curricular schlong and hack writers begging for blurbs.
James Ellroy
#23. Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
Irwin Redlener
#24. I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.
Alonzo Mourning
#25. The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone ... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.
Leila Janah
#26. Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.
Robert Reich
#27. A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth.
Christopher Hitchens
#28. Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.
Brandi L. Bates
#29. Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don't want handouts. They don't want to be completely dependent on their governments - even though there's usually no opportunity for that anyway.
Scarlett Johansson
#30. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout
Dean Alfange
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