Quote by Irving Babbitt
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind,

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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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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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. – Irving Babbitt

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Faith
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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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You cant make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All youre doing is recording it. – Art Buchwald

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Once boys and mens challenges are clear, the question why now quickly becomes why didnt we see this sooner? The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. – Warren Farrell

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Society

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive – making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families. – Dirk Kempthorne

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Society

What we do as a society is seek simple answers. – Dean Koontz

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It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. – Robert H. Jackson

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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. – Will Rogers

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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hesse

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