As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common. — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak,… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
