Quotes By Irving Babbitt

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

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.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.