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Quote by Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.”

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Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a distinguished economist. Born on May 23, 1914, and passing away on May 31, 1981, Ward is renowned for her contributions to environmental economics and sustainable development. more

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

People Believe Faith Return West

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“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.”

Fall Nations Wealth Mankind Ideology Gaps Abyss Annihilation

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.”

Moral Gone Unity

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“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.”

“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.”

Mean Choices Liberty Poverty Impression Awful Servitude

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“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.”

Men Nations Grows Poor Rich Easier Investing Rich And Poor Rich Man Poor Man

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.”

Political Nations Poor Rich Century International Theme Distinction Dominant Rich And Poor Poor Nations

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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