Irving Babbitt

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.