Emily Greene Balch Quotes & Sayings
23 most famous Emily Greene Balch quotes and sayings (educator). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.”
“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.”
“The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.”
“A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.”
“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 deeply affected social relations.”
“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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