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 WARDOur physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
More Barbara Ward Quotes
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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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The 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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
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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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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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Business shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
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Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
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Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
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