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“When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could put a man on the moon could still have people sleeping on the streets. Part of that problem is political will; we could take a lot of people off the streets tomorrow if we made it a national priority. But I have also come to realize that NASA had it easy. Rockets conform to the unchanging laws of physics. We know where the moon will be at a given time; we know precisely how fast a spacecraft will enter or exist the earth's orbit. If we get the equations right, the rocket will land where it is supposed to--always. Human beings are more complex than that. A recovering drug addict does not behave as predictably as a rocket in orbit. We don't have a formula for persuading a sixteen-year-old not to drop out of school. But we do have a powerful tool: We know that people seek to make themselves better off, however they may define that. Our best hope for improving the human condition is to understand why we act the way we do and then plan accordingly. Programs, organizations, and systems work better when they get the incentives right. It is like rowing downstream.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

“[beware that] “many of what are called social problems are differences between the theories of intellectuals and the realities of the world—differences which many intellectuals interpret to mean that it is the real world that is wrong and needs changing.”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society

“Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.”
― Jordan Flaherty, Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six

“First of all, nobody gave us anything. It makes me furious when I hear that they gave us suffrage. Excuse me? It took 72 years of unrelenting, unbroken organizing grassroots effort to get women's suffrage. It took 113 years to get rid of child labor by law. It took similarly long periods of organized effort to accomplish any advance in social policy.”
― Gerda Lerner

“This is not necessarily true, however, of measures merely restricting the allowed methods of production, so long as these restrictions affect all potential producers equally and are not used as an indirect way of controlling prices and quantities. Though all such controls of the methods of production impose extra costs (i.e., make it necessary to use more resources to produce a given output), they may be well worth while. To prohibit the use of certain poisonous substances or to require special precautions in their use, to limit working hours or to require certain sanitary arrangements, is fully compatible with the preservation of competition. The only question here is whether in the particular instance the advantages gained are greater than the social costs which they impose. Nor is the preservation of competition incompatible with an extensive system of social services â€� so long as the organization of these services is not designed in such a way as to make competition ineffective over wide fields.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

“All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.”
― Clifford Cohen

“Poverty is an age-old concept , which is corelated with enjoyment of necessities of life and that it is an evil which the world is fighting till date. Poverty alleviating shibboleths such as philanthropy, social service schemes, social reforms, reformative policies etc, seem fatuous yielding exiguous results.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin , Legal Counsel , Author- Social Policy and Law

“Education is a basic human need which can certainly be considered a path to social
development. Expansion of individual knowledge leads to expansion of civilized thought process
and with the dissemination of such thinking the society develops and grows to the next level. This
brings about social change and development with marked progress. Social development begins
within the mind, with the desire to change and improve. This desire may have been inculcated
through learning or observation. Such desires must be fueled towards progress.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin, SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT â€� A PRIMER:

“International organizations have played a pivotal role is strategic implementation of social policy
measures which has led to strengthening the individual fabric of a given society of a single given
nation having a trampoline impact effecting the surrounding nations.
Much has been done in the past and much is still being done. The question remains would we
reach an ideal place of social perfection? That remains a question till this decade, and it seems
to me that it will always remain a question!”
― Henrietta Newton Martin, SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT â€� A PRIMER:

“The challenges that the sphere of social work faces today is appropriate funding, channelization
of funds for suitable causes, dilution of the object of funding, harnessing appropriate technology
to aid in social work, total eradication of social evils –for example –poverty, dilution of social
ethics, deviation from devised goals, scarcity of resources etc”
― Henrietta Newton Martin

“The anomalies in the field of social service sector can be regulated with strategic partnerships
and ethic-infused prioritized channelization of resources and appropriately devised practical
social policies.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin, SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT â€� A PRIMER: