Irwin Edman Quotes
- To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
- God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.
- The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
- The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more…
- The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.
- Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for…
- Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.
- It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
- The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
- Life is always at some turning point.
- Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine