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“The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.”
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William Beveridge
Source : "Voluntary Action" by William Beveridge, (Ch. 12), 1948.
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“Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.”
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William Beveridge
Source : "Full Employment in a Free Society". Book by William Beveridge, Part 7, 1944.
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“Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.”
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William Beveridge
#Country Quotes
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#Mean Quotes
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“A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!”
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William Beveridge
Source : William Beveridge (1847). “Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica: Or, The Doctrine of the Church of England Consonant to Scripture, Reason, and Fathers : in a Discourse Upon the Thirty Nine Articles Agreed Upon in the Convocation Held at London MDLXII”, p.344
#Ocean Quotes
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“If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.”
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William Beveridge
#Long Quotes
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“Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.”
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William Beveridge
#Blessing Quotes
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“Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.”
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William Beveridge
Source : "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 1, 8), November 1942.
#Ignorance Quotes
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“Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.”
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William Beveridge
Source : "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 1, 7), November 1942.
#War Quotes
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“The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone.”
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William Beveridge
#Men Quotes
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“no one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.”
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William Beveridge
Source : "The Art of Scientific Investigation".
#Believe Quotes
#Hypothesis Quotes
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“There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.”
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William Beveridge
#Attitude Quotes
#Mind Quotes
#Important Quotes
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“The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.”
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William Beveridge
#Peace Quotes
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“Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.”
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William Beveridge
#Temperature Quotes
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“The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than that minimum for himself and his family.”
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William Beveridge
#Encouragement Quotes
#Responsibility Quotes
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“Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.”
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William Beveridge
#Ignorance Quotes
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“Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.”
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William Beveridge
#Privilege Quotes
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“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.”
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William Beveridge
Source : "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 7), November 1942.
#War Quotes
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