Social Service Quotes

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.