14 Quotes by 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 could connect himself.

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

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

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine

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.

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

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

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.

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