"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual."
― Irving Babbitt
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Peace
― Irving Babbitt
More From Irving Babbitt
- "A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
- "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."
- "The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
More In Peace
- "To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."― Tacitus
- "I am 73 years old. I’ve seen everything. I’ve met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I’ve been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace."― Ariel Sharon
- "Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history."― John Bruton