Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
BARBARA WARDFear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
BARBARA WARDThere is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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 WARDWe have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
BARBARA WARDthe distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
BARBARA WARDman’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
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 WARDFaith 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 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 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 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 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 WARDOur physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
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 WARD