Every 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 LodsworthIt 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 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 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 Lodsworth