"In the long run men inevitably become the……" — Herbert Croly
"In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world."
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Herbert Croly
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32 Quotes by Herbert Croly
Herbert Croly has 32 quotes on this site.
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The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
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The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed…
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Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions,…
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If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the…
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The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized…
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I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . .…
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I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of…
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Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
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American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
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Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the…
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In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
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Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American…
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