Emily Greene Balch

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally…

— Emily Greene Balch

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and…

— Emily Greene Balch

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

— Emily Greene Balch

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to…

— Emily Greene Balch

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal…

— Emily Greene Balch

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our…

— Emily Greene Balch

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking…

— Emily Greene Balch

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor,…

— Emily Greene Balch

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of…

— Emily Greene Balch

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and…

— Emily Greene Balch

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is…

— Emily Greene Balch

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

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

— Emily Greene Balch

We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are…

— Emily Greene Balch

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis…

— Emily Greene Balch

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or…

— Emily Greene Balch

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends…

— Emily Greene Balch

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment…

— Emily Greene Balch

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

— Emily Greene Balch

Let us be patient with one another, And even patient with ourselves. We have a long, long way to go. So let…

— Emily Greene Balch

In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling…

— Emily Greene Balch

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only…

— Emily Greene Balch

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker…

— Emily Greene Balch

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by…

— Emily Greene Balch

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

— Emily Greene Balch