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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.

Barbara Ward

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

Believe Men Progress
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
BARBARA WARD

Believe Law Progress
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
BARBARA WARD

Ends Facts Overwhelmed
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.
BARBARA WARD

Facts Government People
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
BARBARA WARD

Environmental Rivers Science
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 People Sacrifice
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
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Gone Moral Unity
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

Feet Idols World
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 Ocean White
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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Done Half Important
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
BARBARA WARD

Beginning Indeed Wisdom
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

Believe Faith People
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 Person Something Stronger Want
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.
BARBARA WARD

Fall Gaps Wealth
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.
BARBARA WARD

Men Order Past
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 Liberty Mean

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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