Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Birth 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… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Has beens 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… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Being overwhelmed 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… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Dreams 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… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Accounts Copy Share Image
In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Baby Copy Share Image
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Gone 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… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Done 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… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Accurate 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 Century 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… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Easier 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… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Admiration Copy Share Image
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 Believe Copy Share Image
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Believe Copy Share Image
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Business Copy Share Image
Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Believe Copy Share Image
I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Awful Copy Share Image
in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Fear Copy Share Image
The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Abyss Copy Share Image
man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Men Copy Share Image
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Care Copy Share Image
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Caricatures Copy Share Image
To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Achieve Copy Share Image
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Done Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we are faced with the stewardship of this beautiful, subtle, incredibly delicate, fragile planet. On the other, we… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Beautiful Copy Share Image