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.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of LodsworthIt 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.
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 LodsworthCasually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his commerce and his science. ... Does it mean nothing to him if great areas of the world, where western influence has been predominant, emerge from this tutelage unable to return to the old life, yet unfitted for the new? It is hard to believe that the future could ever belong to men demonstrating irresponsibility on so vast a scale.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth