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.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.