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 LodsworthThere is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
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 LodsworthOur physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of LodsworthOn 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