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.
Irving BabbittAct strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
Irving BabbittFurthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
Irving BabbittCommercialism 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.
Irving Babbitt