Beatrice Webb quotes

Beatrice Webb was a pioneering British sociologist, economist, and social reformer. Known for her significant contributions to the development of the welfare state and the co-founding of the London School of Economics, she influenced social policy in Britain. She advocated for empirical research in the social sciences and played a crucial role in shaping modern social thought. Here are 4 of her quotes:

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

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

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