Barbara Ward Quotes

#1. Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#2. 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.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#3. Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#4. His eyes were wide, and they were asking if I would be his, simply and earnestly. I couldn't answer. I had to look away.

Sophie Sloane

#5. 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, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#6. 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, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#7. 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, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#8. 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, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#9. Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#10. Man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#11. Patience," he said, his eyes intent on his project.
"Patience is no' a virtue I have, Dash. I'm very sorry ta tell ye, but ye would have found out soon enough anyway.

Lydia Dare

#12. It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

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

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#14. 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, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#15. 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, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#16. 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, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#17. 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, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#18. The distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#19. 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.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#20. 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, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#21. If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well."
"If you were a lady, you would have waited for me to make the offer.

Marissa Meyer

#22. Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

John Paul DeJoria

#23. 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.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#24. Around the circle eyes began to glisten as Carol's awe of the Gospel laid bare the shame of those of us whose senses had been dulled to its wonder.

Barbara Hughes

#25. 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, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#26. We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

#27. 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, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth