--- title: "4 Walter Weyl Quotes - Famous Economist (The New Democracy)" description: "Walter Edward Weyl was a writer and speaker, an intellectual leader of the Progressive movement in the United States. As a strong nationalist, his goal ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walter-weyl-94470.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Walter Weyl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walter-weyl-94470.jpg) # Walter Weyl (1873–1919) Economist United States **4** quotes in **59** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Walter Weyl was an economist from the United States, best known for *The New Democracy*. ## Quick Facts About Walter Weyl Born March 11, 1873 Died November 9, 1919 Nationality United States Profession Economist Notable works The New Democracy ## About Walter Weyl Walter Edward Weyl was a writer and speaker, an intellectual leader of the Progressive movement in the United States. As a strong nationalist, his goal was to remedy the relatively weak American national institutions with a strong state. Weyl wrote widely on issues of economics, labor, public policy, and international affairs in numerous books, articles, and editorials; he was a coeditor of the highly influential The New Republic magazine, 1914–1916. His most influential book, The New Democracy (1912) was a classic statement of democratic meliorism, revealing his path to a future of progress and modernization based on middle class values, aspirations and brain work. It articulated the general mood:"America to-day is in a somber, soul-questioning mood. We are in a period of clamor, of bewilderment, of an almost tremulous unrest. We are hastily revising all our social conceptions.... We are profoundly disenchanted with the fruits of a century of independence." ## Quotes by Walter Weyl > [We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-weyl/we-are-developing-new-types-of-destitutes-the-automobileless-the/) [Walter Weyl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-weyl/) [Consumerism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/consumerism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f5/walter-weyl-65114_consumerism_we-are-developing-new-types-of-destitute_292166.jpg) > [We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-weyl/we-must-not-forget-that-these-men-and-women-who-file-through-the/) [Walter Weyl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-weyl/) [Ancestor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancestor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/walter-weyl-65114_ancestor_we-must-not-forget-that-these-men-and-wo_816747.jpg) > [The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-weyl/the-surplus-of-society-overrides-all-our-traditions-and-shapes-all/) [Walter Weyl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-weyl/) [Community](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/community/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/591/walter-weyl-65114_community_the-surplus-of-society-overrides-all-our_2535502.jpg) > [The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-weyl/the-little-individualist-recognizing-his-individual-impotence/) [Walter Weyl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-weyl/) [All things](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/all-things/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf6/walter-weyl-65114_all-things_the-little-individualist-recognizing-his_3152787.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-weyl/#itemlist", "name": "Walter Weyl Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. 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