Quotes By Irving Babbitt

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.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.