Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine. — 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, and the ignorant in capitalist society. — 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
