Scratch A Pessimist And You Will Often

If The Way Of Heaven Be Narrow, It Is Not Long; And If The Gate Be Straight, It Opens Into Endless Life.

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.

There Is A Very Important Distinction Between A Critical Attitude Of Mind (or Critical Faculty) And A Sceptical Attitude.

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.

Scratch A Pessimist And You Will Often Find A Defender Of Privilege.