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Irving Babbitt

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

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

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Donna Grant

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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Donna Grant

"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

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Donna Grant

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

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Donna Grant

"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

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Donna Grant

"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

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Donna Grant

"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

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Donna Grant

"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."

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Donna Grant

"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."

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Donna Grant

"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."

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Donna Grant

"Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again."

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Irving Babbitt
"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."

Achievement

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Irving Babbitt
"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."

Sympathy

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Irving Babbitt
"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."

Discipline

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Irving Babbitt
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."

Leadership

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Irving Babbitt
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."

Virtue

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Irving Babbitt
"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."

Sympathy

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Irving Babbitt
"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."

Reading

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Irving Babbitt
"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."

Society

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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."

Faith

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Irving Babbitt
"We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective."

Humanity

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