"There is a great interest in comparative religion……" — 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 with exotic cults."
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Emily Greene Balch
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26 Quotes by Emily Greene Balch
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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone,…
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and…
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As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.
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The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
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Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change…
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Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution…
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The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have…
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Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps…
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A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny…
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We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner.…
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It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.
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Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights…
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More Comparative Quotes
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one of 76 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of…
— Nicolas Cage
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.
— George Santayana
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From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of…
— Noam Chomsky
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is,…
— Karl Popper
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I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.
— Unknown Author
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Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out…
— Unknown Author
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Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who…
— Margaret Drabble
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is…
— Anthony Storr
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