top of page
.png){kind=small}
"To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Quality quotes
"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."
"The time you utilize doing something determines how good the product will be."
"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
"What is easy is seldom excellent."
"The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products."
"Quality is better than quantity."
Explore more quotes by Irving Babbitt
"Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards."
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
"A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses."
"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
"The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality."
bottom of page