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

- Irwin Edman

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 po…

- Irwin Edman

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

- Irwin Edman

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

- Irwin Edman

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

- Irwin Edman

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

- Irwin Edman

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

- Irwin Edman

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

- Irwin Edman

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

- Irwin Edman