Quotes Irving Babbitt

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, i...

A gross and palpable error of the era that is just closing h...

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so mu...

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in ...

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both i...

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but e...

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thi...

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper ...

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy ...

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialis...

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic i...

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standar...

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to ...

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qu...

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, ...

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some ...

One of our federal judges said, not long ago, that what the ...

One should, therefore, in the interests of democracy itself ...

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is...

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally des...

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small ...

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of...

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole ...

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain t...

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of k...