Charles Fletcher Dole Quotes

1845–1927 United States

Charles Fletcher Dole (1845, Brewer, Maine – 1927, Hawaii) was an influential Unitarian minister, speaker, and writer in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, and Chairman of the Association to Abolish War.

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Also known as: Dole, Charles Fletcher

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Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.

The Spirit of Democracy (1906)

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God’s world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

The Coming People (1897)

Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.

Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.

The Coming Religion (1910)

It is a world of startling possibilities.

Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.

The Coming People (1897)

The truly civilized man has no enemies.

The Smoke and the Flame: A Study in the Development of Religion (1902)

The Golden Rule works like gravitation.

The conception of life as constructive rather than antagonistic effort finds beautiful illustration in every approach that we make toward true civilization. You measure the quality and the value of the civilization of individuals or peoples, not by the houses which they live in or the clothes which they wear, but by the width and power of their sympathy.

The Theology of Civilization (1899)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Fletcher Dole (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.