Emily Greene Balch

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

— Emily Greene Balch

#also #arbitrary #desire #domestic #felt

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. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#east #especially #europe #feudal #feudalism

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. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#determined #existent #foresee #future #happenings

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. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#challenges #convulsion #effort #end #long

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

— Emily Greene Balch

#britain #catastrophically #diminished #france #germany

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. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cults #desire #even #exotic #experiment

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. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#change #courage #depths #eternal #face

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

#computation #cost #course #fascism #flood

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

— Emily Greene Balch

#common #deal #either #loyalty #nevertheless