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 WARDI 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 WARDIt is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.
BARBARA WARDman’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
BARBARA WARDThe 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 WARDIt is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
BARBARA WARDThere is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
BARBARA WARDEvery 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.
BARBARA WARDOur physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
BARBARA WARDThe 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 WARDJews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
BARBARA WARDWe have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
BARBARA WARDBusiness shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
BARBARA WARDThere 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.
BARBARA WARDIt 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 WARDThe 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.
BARBARA WARDTo 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