A Quote by James Cook

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

James Cook

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James Cook
British - Explorer
October 27, 1728 - February 14, 1779

Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

Winnie Byanyima

I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.

Jeb Hensarling

It makes sense for social scientists to become more involved in policy because many of society's most challenging problems are, in essence, behavioral.

Richard Thaler

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional "public morals experts" in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

Samuel Gompers

Congress created tax-exempt 501(c)(4)s to operate exclusively for social welfare purposes like early childhood education, environmental protection, and veteran's assistance. However, an IRS regulation allows 501(c)(4)s to operate primarily for the promotion of social welfare.

Michelle Lujan Grisham

So in a strong sense with Java it was a learning process for us - there was some tech learning - but the most important learnings were social or behavioral things.

James Gosling

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Steve Jobs

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

Newt Gingrich

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

Bernard-Henri Levy

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Jonathan Haidt

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

Edmund Phelps

Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics and politics: what was intended to be a mere porch to ethics is either the whole house or nothing at all. In so laying down its life welfare economics may be able to contribute some of its insights and analytical methods to a much broader evaluative analysis of the whole social process.

Kenneth E. Boulding

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. ... The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

Calvin Coolidge

It is true that I am one of the co-authors of 'Nudge,' and I am a behavioral economist, but it does not mean that everything we write about in that book is behavioral economics, nor does it mean that my co-author, the distinguished legal scholar Cass Sunstein, is a behavioral economist.

Richard Thaler

Social media has had a corrosive effect on government and trust, and I think it is a real cause for concern.