Quotes by Irving Babbitt about Quality

2 quotes by Irving Babbitt about quality

Irving Babbitt American Critic

An 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.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about quality

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.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about quality

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