The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.