Quotes by Beatrice Webb

About Beatrice Webb:

Martha Beatrice Webb, Lady Passfield was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer. Her husband, Sidney Webb, was created Baron Passfield in 1929. Along with her husband and numerous others, Webb co-founded the London School of Economics and played a crucial role in forming the Fabian Society. She coined the term "collective bargaining".
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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.

Beatrice Webb

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

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.

Beatrice Webb

Author Bio

  • NameBeatrice Webb
  • DescriptionEnglish sociologist, economist, socialist, labor historian and social reformer
  • BornJanuary 22, 1858
  • DiedApril 30, 1913
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionEconomist