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 WARDIt is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.
More Barbara Ward Quotes
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Business shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
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We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that “we choose death.”
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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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man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
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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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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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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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There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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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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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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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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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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Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
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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.
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Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
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