1.
Life is always at some turning point.
Irwin Edman
2.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.
Irwin Edman
3.
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
Irwin Edman
4.
Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.
Irwin Edman
5.
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
6.
The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human
being from having one.
Irwin Edman
7.
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
8.
The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.
Irwin Edman
9.
God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.
Irwin Edman
10.
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
Irwin Edman
11.
By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically
abolished major differences in wealth.
Irwin Edman
12.
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Irwin Edman