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.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

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.

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