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 WARDin 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.
More Barbara Ward Quotes
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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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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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Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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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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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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man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
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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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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
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