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 Po…

- 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

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

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

- 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

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

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

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

- Emily Greene Balch