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 LodsworthIt is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision...That is the sort of time we live in now. We...live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworththe 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 LodsworthJews 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 LodsworthEvery 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 LodsworthOur physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of LodsworthWe 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