~ Beatrice Potter Webb Quotes ~

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Beatrice Potter Webb Quotes


An English sociologist, economist, socialist, reformer and a co-founder of the London School of Economics, usually referred to in association with her husband, Sidney Webb.
Martha Beatrice Webb (née Potter; 22 January 1858– 30 April 1943) was an English sociologist, economist, socialist, reformer and a co-founder of the London School of Economics, usually referred to in association with her husband, Sidney Webb. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield. She coined the term collective bargaining.

Here are some famous quotes by Beatrice Potter Webb.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

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If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full 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. ... Why should you be frightened?'