Quotes About Beveridge

Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their place has been erected a mish-mash of means-tested, behaviour-tested social assistance, with a growing tendency to force young unemployed into workfare schemes, which are helping to depress real wages.

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

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

Beveridge] was a driven man, right to the end; his last words, enunciated clearly from his death bed at the age of eighty-four, showed that the aging social reformer was still haunted by the memory of those sick men on the East London streets. 'I have a thousand things to do,' he said, and died.

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.

Beveridge Report, published in November 1942, which laid the foundations of Britain's postwar welfare state.