Quotes About Handouts

#1. Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. This country was not built... by men who sought handouts. John Galt speech, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Alex Ayres

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

Ronald Reagan

#6. A faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

Ronald Reagan

#7. The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

Pauline Hanson

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#11. Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts ... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.

James Bovard

#12. As for her cat, Galahad made an appearance, regally ignored everyone under four feet until he clued in that this variety of humans was more likely to drop food on the floor, or sneak him handouts. He ended in a gluttonous coma, tubby belly up under a table.

J.D. Robb

#13. None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ... If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

Barry Goldwater

#14. The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Thomas Sowell

#15. I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

Jonathan Haidt

#16. Even pigeons were once cherished in American cities, before all the handouts and garbage we've given them to eat allowed their numbers to explode. In 1878, the New York Times described pigeons as "honest birds" whose "right to feed in the street" was being challenged by sparrows. In

Jon Mooallem

#17. When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

Linda Chavez

#18. Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.

Tammy Bruce

#19. 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

#20. Justice not charity, solidarity not pity, opportunity not handouts.

Samantha Nutt

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.

Robert Reich

#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. 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

#27. Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Irwin Redlener

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James Ellroy

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Paul LePage

#33. 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

#34. Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Leila Janah

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

Glenn Beck

#38. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout

Dean Alfange

#39. 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

#40. Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.

Orrin Woodward