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… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his commerce and his science. ... Does it mean nothing to him if great areas of the world, where… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set the processes of modernization in motion. Education brought not only the idea of equality but also another belief which we used to take for granted in the West-the idea of progress, the idea that science… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share
In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all.… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
