Ralph Barton Perry Inspirational Quotes (7)

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all men without exception, including those who are on the other side in every fratricidal dispute, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history.

The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.

What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes.

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.