Quotes by Herbert Croly

Herbert Croly

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Congratulations

Pride

Regret

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

Motherhood

Wife

Women

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Government

Halloween

Mean

Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a more than usually safe form of political organization . . . . But if it is to work better as well as merely longer, it must have some leavening effect on human nature; and the sincere democrat is obliged to assume the power of the leaven. [Progressive]

Fall

Organization

Political

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

Land

Ocean

Promise

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

Literature

Mixtures

Optimism

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.

Definitions

Democracy

Should

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

Democracy

Men

Organization

In Jefferson’s mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

Democracy

Literature

Mind

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.

Long

Men

Running

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Adoption

America

Believe

Civilization

Class

Congratulations

Country

Creation

Definitions

Democracy

Democratic Ideals

Determined

Education

Enthusiasm

Equality

Expression

Fall

Faults

Federalism

Fighting

Government

Growth

Halloween

Hands

Historical

Independence

Intellectual

Land

Library

Literature

Long

Loyalty

Majority

Matter

Mean

Memorial Day

Men

Mind

Mixtures

Monopoly

Motherhood

Native American

Ocean

Opponents

Opportunity

Optimism

Order

Organization

Patriotic

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Quotes by Herbert Croly

Herbert Croly

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

In Jefferson’s mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

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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