Keith Joseph Quotes
January 17, 1918 – 10 December 1994
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Problems reproduce themselves generation to generation.... I refer to this as a 'cycle of deprivation'.
Speech to Pre-school playgroups association, 29 June 1972 
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More Keith Joseph Quotes
Yes, we have to get economics back into proportion, as one aspect of politics, important but never really the main thing. This may be unfashionable, indeed anti-fashionable, because it is the current intellectual fashions which have wrought so much havoc in this country.
Keith Joseph— Speech at Birmingham, 19 October 1974; Margaret Thatcher website
The balance of our population, our human stock is threatened. A recent article in Poverty , published by the Child Poverty Action Group, showed that a high and rising proportion of children are being born to mothers least fitted to bring children into the world and to bring them up. They are born to mothers who were first pregnant in adolescence in socio-economic classes IV and V.
Keith Joseph— "Speech seen as attempt to swing party to right", The Times, 21 October 1974, p. 1Speech at Birmingham, 19 October 1974. The speech called for a "remoralization" of Britain but ended Joseph's chance of winning the Conservative leadership owing to criticism of Joseph's link between births to working-class mothers and promoting birth control.
Making the rich poorer does not make the poor richer, but it does make the state stronger and it does increase the power of officials and politicians, power more menacing, more permanent and less useful than market power within the rule of law. Inequality of income can only be eliminated at the cost of freedom. The pursuit of income equality will turn this country into a totalitarian slum.
Keith Joseph— Stranded on the Middle Ground: Reflections on Circumstances and Policies (Centre for Policy Studies, 1976).
"Moderates" behind whom Red Fascism spreads.
Keith Joseph— Keith Joseph on the Ministers on the right of the Labour Party (Shirley Williams, Dennis Howell and Fredrick Mulley) who went on the Grunwick picket line (Conservative Monthly News, August 1977).
It was only in April 1974 that I was converted to Conservatism. (I had thought I was a Conservative but I now see that I was not really one at all.)
Keith Joseph— Keith Joseph, Reversing the Trend: A Critical Reappraisal of Conservative Economic and Social Policies (Barry Rose, 1975).
All my life, I thought I was a Conservative. Now I know that I have never been one. The scales have dropped from my eyes.
Keith Joseph— Obituary, The Independent, Monday 12 December 1994.
