Emily Greene Balch Quotes

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

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  Tags in Nevertheless, Church, Loyalty

• 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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  Tags in Speculate, Study

• We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Fascism, Ran, Waste, Cost

• Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

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  Tags in Depths, Unchangeable, Principles

• These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

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  Tags in Imperialism, Colonialism, Treated, Economically

• 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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  Tags in Exotic, Experiment, Comparative

• The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

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  Tags in Diminished, Germany, Suffer, Suffered

• The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

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  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Succeed

• The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

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  Tags in Happenings, Trends, Determined

• The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

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  Tags in Feudal, Europe, Feudalism

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

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  Tags in Arbitrary, Domestic, Tyranny, Struggle

• Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance – the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

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  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Telegraph, Lessen, Telephone

• Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

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  Tags in Era, Proceeding, Momentous

• 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.

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  Tags in Ignorant, Weak

• 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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  Tags in Analyse, Seek

• Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Revolution, Referred

• In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

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  Tags in Developments, Tendencies, Trend

• As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possibilities, Thereby, Formed, Judging

• Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Tags in Connected, Medical, Discoveries, Closely

• A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

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  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Enriched, Reliance, Disciplined, Eternal

Emily Greene Balch (23)

Birth:	8th January, 1867
Death:	9th January, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Economist, Pacifist, Professor, Sociologist, Writer

About

Emily Greene Balch was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was an American economist, sociologist, writer, professor, and pacifist. She combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor and immigration, as well as settlement work to uplift poor immigrants and reduce juvenile delinquency. She moved into the peace movement at the start of the World War I in 1914, and began collaborating with Jane Addams of Chicago. She became a central leader of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom based in Switzerland, for which she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946. She graduated Bryn Mawr College in 1889. She did graduate work in Paris and published her research as Public Assistance of the Poor in France. She then studied at Harvard, University Chicago, and the University of Berlin. She published a major sociological study of Our Slavic Fellow Citizens in 1910.

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