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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 23 quotes by Emily Greene Balch Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist and writer. She became a Quaker and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Balch 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... Read full biography of Emily Greene Balch → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and... → 0 Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. 0 The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. 0 A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and... → 0 Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical... → 0 Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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