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 LodsworthBusiness shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of LodsworthThere is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworthin 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 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