Quote by Irving Babbitt
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individ

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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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

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Environment
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. – Irving Babbitt

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Happiness
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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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Peace
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Peace of mind for five minutes, thats what I crave. – Alanis Morissette

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Peace

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. – Benjamin Franklin

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Peace

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world. – Aneurin Bevan

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Peace

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. – John Bruton

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Peace

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The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need. – Jane Roberts

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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. – Maimonides

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Religion

I dont know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. – Georges Clemenceau

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Peace