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Barbara Ward Quotes


A British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries.
Barbara Mary Ward (23 May 1914 – 31 May 1981), in later life Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged Western governments to share their prosperity with the rest of the world and in the 1960s turned her attention to environmental questions as well. She was an early advocate of sustainable development before this term became familiar and was well-known as a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster. Ward was adviser to policy-makers in the UK, US and elsewhere.

Here are some famous quotes by Barbara Ward.

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.

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It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

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To act without rapacity to use knowledge with wisdom to respect interdependence to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.