"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."

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Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

Emily Greene Balch

#War Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Long Quotes

“My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.”
“I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.”
“The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!”
“I have a big personality, and I've been attracted to women with big personalities. I think that is usually going to happen when you have big personalities.”
“Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing - in a room, till the walls disappear - in the open, till the sky, moving as you dance, seems to cleave and let you through.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1925). “The Trap”
“It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.”
“No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.”

Source : Charles S. Maier (1998). “The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface”, p.136, Harvard University Press
“As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.”

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