Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Earth #Guests #Forgotten
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

#Faith #Believe #People
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

#Fall #Gaps #Wealth
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Unity #Gone #Moral
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we can, by pursuing our own most parochial self-interest, achieve in some miraculous way a consummation of world order, then we are heading not simply towards great disappointments, but towards disaster and tragedy as well.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Disappointment #Thinking #Self
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

#Mean #Choices #Liberty
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

#Men #Investing #Rich
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

#Political #Rich #Poor
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

#Ocean #White #Islands
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

#Past #Men #Order
man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#War #Men #Occupation
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

#Raw Materials #Social #Institutions
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 western influence has been predominant, emerge from this tutelage unable to return to the old life, yet unfitted for the new? It is hard to believe that the future could ever belong to men demonstrating irresponsibility on so vast a scale.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Believe #Mean #Men
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 the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Baby #Home #Cities
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

#Stronger #That One Person #Want
[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 and technology can be used to better human conditions. In ancient society, men tended to believe themselves fortunate if tomorrow was not worse than today and anyway, there was little they could do about it.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Believe #Science #Technology
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

#Life #Dna #Giving
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

#Idols #Feet #Clay
On the one hand, we are faced with the stewardship of this beautiful, subtle, incredibly delicate, fragile planet. On the other, we confront the destiny of our fellow man, our brothers. How can we say that we are followers of Christ if this dual responsibility does not seem to us the essence and heart of our religion?
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Beautiful #Brother #Responsibility
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

#Important #Done #Half
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Sports #Men #Discrimination
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

#Sacrifice #People #Ego
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

#Government #People #Facts
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

#Mean #Greed #Survival
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

#Believe #Men #Progress
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

#Facts #Overwhelmed #Ends
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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