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Quote by Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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

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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

“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

“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.”

Ifs World Has Beens White Poor Poverty Rich Mankind Ocean Misery Western Plenty Islands Minorities Hopeless Wealthy Recipes Rich And Poor Vast Ocean

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“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.”

Men Past Order Modern Shadow Remains Thrown Unemployment Modern Society

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.”

Men War Occupation

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“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.”

Humans Social Produce Materials Institutions Human Society Raw Materials Caricatures Social Institutions Recalcitrant

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.”

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.”

Men Law Known Break Imaginary Providence Pretence

Author:Oliver Cromwell

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