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> [The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to many of us absolutely sound. Of course, we feel that it is not for us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/the-idea-that-collective-society-should-take-hold-of-evil-and-set-it/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

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## More by Gerald Stanley Lee

> [To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/to-be-original-is-to-discover-the-commonplace-of-a-thousand-years-to/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/machinery-is-the-subconscious-mind-of-the-world/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/the-first-and-most-practical-step-in-getting-what-one-wants-in-this/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/i-have-seen-that-man-moves-over-with-each-new-generation-into-a/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/we-may-have-hell-if-we-have-war-and-we-may-have-hell-if-we-have-peace/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/no-man-living-in-a-world-as-interesting-as-this-ever-writes-a-book-if/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/we-have-had-the-stone-age-we-have-had-the-iron-age-and-now-we-have/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/what-was-invented-two-thousand-years-ago-was-the-spirit-of/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/the-idea-that-collective-society-should-take-hold-of-evil-and-set-it/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/the-problem-of-living-in-this-modern-world-is-the-problem-of-finding/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/there-are-two-kinds-of-second-class-men-in-business-there-is-the-man/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/christmas-it-too-large-to-be-tucked-away-in-the-toe-of-a-child-s/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [A vice is a failure of desire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/a-vice-is-a-failure-of-desire/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness… No one feels he belongs here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/new-york-is-the-capital-the-national-headquarters-of-homelessness-no/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

> [The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/the-great-man-is-the-man-who-can-get-himself-made-and-who-will-get/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

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