Contemporary Quote by Irwin Edman

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned…

— Irwin Edman

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

— Irwin Edman

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine

— Irwin Edman

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

— Irwin Edman

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

— Irwin Edman

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

— Irwin Edman

Life is always at some turning point.

— Irwin Edman

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

— Irwin Edman

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

— Irwin Edman

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

— Irwin Edman

“Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man…

— Irwin Edman

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

— Irwin Edman