“A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.”
Irving Babbitt
Tags: Conclude | Democracy | Feelings | Forced | Idealistic | Imperialistic | Itself | Likely | Observer | Practice | Realistic
50% of people like this quote
Irving Babbitt
Author details
Related authors
Other Irving Babbitt Quotes
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt
59% of people like this quote
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.
Irving Babbitt
56% of people like this quote
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.
Irving Babbitt
56% of people like this quote
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Irving Babbitt
55% of people like this quote
The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
Irving Babbitt
54% of people like this quote