Quotes from Beatrice Webb

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

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

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.