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.

Barbara Ward

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Choices Mean

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
BARBARA WARD

Political Poor Nations
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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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.
BARBARA WARD
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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Facts
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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West
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.

BARBARA WARD

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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Island White
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.”

BARBARA WARD

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.”
BARBARA WARD

DNA
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.
BARBARA WARD
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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Gaps
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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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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One Something Stronger
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
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Gone Unity
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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Half
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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Greed Mean
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.

BARBARA WARD

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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Investing
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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Order
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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Ego
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 WARD

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.
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Feet Idols