Quote by Irving Babbitt
The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse

The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality…. Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. – Irving Babbitt

Other quotes by Irving Babbitt

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. – Irving Babbitt

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Faith
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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. – Irving Babbitt

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Peace
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

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Society
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Environment
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. – Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

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Environment

The human race will be the cancer of the planet. – Julian Huxley, attributed

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Environment

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. – Brooke Medicine Eagle

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Environment

A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. – Author Unknown

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Environment

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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. – Margaret Mead

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Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. – Mark Van Doren, Liberal Education, 1943

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If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. – James Gibbons Huneker

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