A Quote by Ray Davies

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

Ray Davies

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Comfort Earth Feel Government Need Poor Weak

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Ray Davies
English - Musician
Born: June 21, 1944

[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Church charities lose their mission when the government provides food, shelter and income to the poor. And the non-poor no longer feel pressed to provide aid to those in need, be they aged parents or their unfortunate neighbors-"compassion" having become the province of the state.

Mona Charen

There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted.

Rush Limbaugh

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

Billy Graham

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

Rich Mullins

Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

Irving Kristol

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.

Louis Farrakhan

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

Faith Sullivan

Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home

Ruth Pitter

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

Christopher Marlowe

When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

P. J. O'Rourke

What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.

Paulo Coelho

In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.

Cornel West

I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.