Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
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.
More Barbara Ward Quotes
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Business shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
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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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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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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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Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
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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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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
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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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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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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 distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
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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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man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
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Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
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