Barbara Ward | minimalistquotes

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
Business shouldn’t be like sports, separating the men from the women.
BARBARA WARD

Discrimination
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.

BARBARA WARD

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.
BARBARA WARD

Institutions Raw Materials
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.

BARBARA WARD

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
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.
BARBARA WARD

Facts
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
BARBARA WARD

Indeed
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

BARBARA WARD

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
BARBARA WARD

Ends Facts Overwhelmed
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.
BARBARA WARD

West
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.
BARBARA WARD

Greed Mean
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

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