The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

Barbara Ward

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Institutions Raw Materials

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.
BARBARA WARD

Greed Mean
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.

BARBARA WARD

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
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the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
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Political Poor Nations
I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful … servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

BARBARA WARD

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful … servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.
BARBARA WARD

Choices Mean
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
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West
To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sightedly for the good of others, they achieve their own prosperity, too.
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Facts
Business shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
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Discrimination
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
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Indeed
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

BARBARA WARD

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.
BARBARA WARD

Institutions Raw Materials
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.

BARBARA WARD

the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.
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Island White
It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

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It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.
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One Something Stronger
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

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It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
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Ends Facts Overwhelmed
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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Half
in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.
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Order
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

BARBARA WARD

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.
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Investing
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
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Gone Unity