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 WARDTo 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 WARDOur physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
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 WARDthe distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
BARBARA WARDJews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
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 WARDBusiness shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
BARBARA WARDthe 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.
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 WARDIf 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 WARDman’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
BARBARA WARDWe have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
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 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.
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 WARD