Beatrice Webb Quotes
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
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.
All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.
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.
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.
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.
