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man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.

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Occupation

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
It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

BARBARA WARD

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.
BARBARA WARD

One Something Stronger
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
Business shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
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Discrimination
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 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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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.
BARBARA WARD
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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Ego
man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.

BARBARA WARD

man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
BARBARA WARD

Occupation
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
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.
BARBARA WARD
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.

BARBARA WARD

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.
BARBARA WARD
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

BARBARA WARD

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
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Feet Idols
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
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
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.

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