Beatrice Webb Quotes

• La naturaleza sigue negándose obstinadamente a cooperar haciendo a los ricos innatamente superiores a los pobres.

  Beatrice Webb

  People, Wealth, Rich

  Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1923). “The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation”

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• the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

  Beatrice Webb

  Genius, Inheritance, Wealth

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• Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

  Beatrice Webb

  Love, Women, Religion

  My Apprenticeship ch. 2 (1926)

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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.

  Beatrice Webb

  Men, Class, Careers

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.355, Cambridge University 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.

  Beatrice Webb

  Strong, Fear, Patient

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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 Webb

  Men, Benches, May

  Beatrice Webb (1956). “Diaries, 1924-1932”

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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 Webb

  Fear, Class, People

  In Bertrand Russell 'Autobiography' (1967) vol. 1, ch. 4

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• Bajo la superficie de nuestra vida cotidiana, en la historia personal de muchos de nosotros, discurre una continua controversia entre un Ego que afirma y un Ego que niega.

  Beatrice Webb

  Running, Ego, Personal History

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

  Beatrice Webb

  Government, Littles, Cabinets

  Beatrice Webb (1956). “Diaries, 1924-1932”

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• Renuncia - ese es el gran hecho que todos, individuos y clases, tenemos que aprender. Al tratar de evitarla, traemos miseria a nosotros mismos y a los demás.

  Beatrice Webb

  Class, Trying, Facts

  Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap Press

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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.

  Beatrice Webb

  Animal, Luxury, Training

  Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap 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.

  Beatrice Webb

  Ordinary, Half, Waste

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• All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

  Beatrice Webb

  Drinking, Alcohol, Lines

  1917 Health of Working Girls, ch.10.

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• Sería curioso descubrir a quién se escribe en un diario. Posiblemente a alguna misteriosa personificación de la propia identidad.

  Beatrice Webb

  Writing, Identity, Would Be

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.280, Cambridge University Press

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• That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

  Beatrice Webb

  Political, Found, Drifting

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• Si un débil mortal ha de hacer algo en el mundo además de comer su pan, debe haber una determinada subordinación de toda la naturaleza al único objetivo de no jugar con el tiempo, que es pasajero, con la fuerza, que es demasiado limitada.

  Beatrice Webb

  Nature, Demise, World

  Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap Press

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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 Webb

  Fire, Answers, Speech

  Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

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• Harris tenía el dogmatismo egoísta del hombre hecho a sí mismo que se había educado penosamente sin contacto con cerebros superiores.

  Beatrice Webb

  Educación, Hombres, Yo

  Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

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