"We speculate as to what is in store……" — 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 at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act."
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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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