Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.
Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
Foreign Aid is like opium. There are withdrawal pains if you remove it.
I intend to end the something for nothing culture
When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.
All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .
Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there.
It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.
