Courage Quote by 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 real, uplifted…

— Emily Greene Balch

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

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 mankind in…

— 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 landlords, especially…

— 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 minds but…

— 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 that this…

— 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, the weak,…

— 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 so-called backward…

— 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 being wrought…

— 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