Quotes by William Beveridge

William Beveridge

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

Men

Ocean

Shells

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.

Opportunity

Past

War

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.

Country

Jobs

Mean

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

Planning

Plans

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

Heaven

Long

Way

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

Ignorance

Marijuana

Weed

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

Alms

Blessing

Generosity

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

Believe

Experiments

Hypothesis

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.

Giants

Ignorance

Progress

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

Philosophy

Political

Scratches

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Desire

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Encouragement

Experiments

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Generosity

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Government

Heaven

Hypothesis

Ideas

Ignorance

Important

Jobs

Long

Marijuana

Mean

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Mind

Money

Ocean

Opportunity

Past

Peace

Philosophy

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Plans

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Progress

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Science

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Quotes by William Beveridge

William Beveridge

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

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