Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
Irving BabbittAnyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
Irving BabbittAn American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving BabbittIf a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
Irving Babbitt