Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Not only the worst of my sins, but the best of my duties speak me a child of Adam — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God! — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
