Speech to the Landtag (18 October 1849), quoted in Henry E. Sigerist, 'From Bismarck to Beveridge: Developments and Trends in Social Security Legislation', Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 20, No. 4 (1999), p. 484
1840s
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
“The real enemies are overwork, under-payment, insecurity and bad conditions”
Speech to the National Institute of Industrial Psychology (12 November 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 55-56.
1925
Context: The fundamental question is how to make the most of the individual, with all his idiosyncrasies, in his work... these depressing features of the Industrial Revolution, whatever they have brought in their train inside workshops, have had a tendency to bring in their train outside workshops one very bad thing, and that is a dislike of work itself. If work can be presented in a palatable form, I am not sure that the ordinary human being does not like it, provided that he gets a reasonable amount of play. The real enemies are overwork, under-payment, insecurity and bad conditions... We must not exaggerate what is possible. You cannot abolish repetitive work; you cannot, even in a Socialist State; and, after all, the monotony of the workman's life is very much due to the monotony of the consumers' demands. If a man wants the same thing every day, the man who provides it will have a monotonous task.
Source: Committee of human rights reporters, 2011 http://archive.is/0d2i
“If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.”
History and Politics http://books.google.com/books?id=7I82AAAAIAAJ&q="If+the+state+is+strong+it+crushes+us+If+it+is+weak+we+perish" as translated by D. Folliot and J. Mathews (1971)
Vince Cable warns inherited wealth is fuelling inequality https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41168093, BBC News, 6 September 2017
2017
“I felt like a social worker a lot of the time.”
"Debt, Diana and homesickness" http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/theatre-in-newcastle/2004/06/08/debt-diana-and-homesickness-61634-14312773/ The Journal, (2004-06-08)
On stripping.
Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 95
“That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.”
Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (1711)
