Beatrice Webb Quotes

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.
BEATRICE WEBB

Ego Running
At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can’t get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.
BEATRICE WEBB
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
BEATRICE WEBB

Self
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one’s own identity.
BEATRICE WEBB

Personification
If I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
BEATRICE WEBB
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.
BEATRICE WEBB

Benches May
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, “You’re the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?
BEATRICE WEBB
Renunciation – that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
BEATRICE WEBB

Facts Trying
That part of the Englishman’s nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
BEATRICE WEBB

Drifting Found Political
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
BEATRICE WEBB

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