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.

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

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.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

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