Beatrice Webb was a British sociologist and political economist who was a major figure in the development of the Labour Party and the welfare state. She was a co-founder of the London School of Economics and the Fabian Society and a major influence on the development of the modern welfare state in Britain. She wrote extensively on the subject of social reform, labour rights, and poverty, and was a major proponent of the cooperative movement. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Beatrice Webb on human nature, state.
- Died
- April 30, 1943
- Known as
- British Sociologist
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
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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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. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
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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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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?
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the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
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All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.
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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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Life Lessons by Beatrice Webb
- Beatrice Webb's work has demonstrated the importance of understanding the social context of individuals and how it shapes their lives. She argued that social policy should be based on understanding the needs of individuals and communities, rather than on abstract principles. Through her work, she has shown that social change can be achieved through collective action and the power of public opinion.