Beatrice Webb quotes
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“Religion is love; in no case is it logic.”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : My Apprenticeship ch. 2 (1926)
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“That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.163, Cambridge University Press
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“The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.”
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“Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Webb (1956). “Diaries, 1924-1932”
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“the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.”
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“Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”
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“All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : 1917 Health of Working Girls, ch.10.
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“we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”
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“Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press
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“Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap Press
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“It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.280, Cambridge University Press
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“Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1923). “The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation”
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“If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : In Bertrand Russell 'Autobiography' (1967) vol. 1, ch. 4
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“If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap Press
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“Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.”
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“The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.”
-- Beatrice WebbSource : Beatrice Webb (1956). “Diaries, 1924-1932”
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