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 capi…

- 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 b…

- 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

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 …

- 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 in the su…

- 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 courage, courage bas…

- 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

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

- 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 too close to it to appra…

- Emily Greene Balch