Irwin Edman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Life is always at some turning point.
-- Irwin Edman

#Moving #Moving Forward #Life Is
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

#Business #Men #Fables
Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.
-- Irwin Edman

#Honesty #Doe #Demand
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 rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.
-- Irwin Edman

#Children #Smart #Parent
The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.
-- Irwin Edman

#Country #Lying #Quality
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 to the point, we suspect hero worship.
-- Irwin Edman

#Hero #Patterns #Worship
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
-- Irwin Edman

#Inspirational #Myth
God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.
-- Irwin Edman

#Heaven #World #May
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
-- Irwin Edman

#Evil #Spirit #Modern
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
-- Irwin Edman

#Work #Civilization #Quality
By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.
-- Irwin Edman

#Years #Differences #Income

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