Quotes By Irving Babbitt

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.