Beatrice Webb Quotes:- Beatrice Webb (22 January 1858 – 30 April 1943) was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labor 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.
Inspirational Beatrice Webb Quotes
“Religion is love; in no case is it logic.”
Beatrice Webb
“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 Webb
“Renunciation – that is a great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.”
Beatrice Webb
“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 a strength which is only too limited.”
Beatrice Webb
“Nature still obstinately refuses to cooperate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.”
Beatrice Webb
“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 Webb
“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
“Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?”
Beatrice Webb
“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 Webb