Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
BARBARA WARDWe have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
More Barbara Ward Quotes
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Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.
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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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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.
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Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing – don’t live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don’t get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.
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Business shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
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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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Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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 gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.
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man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
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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.
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If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.
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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
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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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