Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Webb
Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer. It was Webb who coined the term "collective bargaining". She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and played a crucial role in forming the Fabian Society...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth22 January 1858
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At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...
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Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?
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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
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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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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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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?
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Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.