"Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may……" — William Beveridge
"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
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13 Quotes by William Beveridge
William Beveridge has 13 quotes on this site.
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Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e…
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The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little…
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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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The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room…
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Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation…
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the…
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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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The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with…
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the…
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Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
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Not only the worst of my sins, but the best of my duties speak me a child of Adam
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