Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion,… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering,… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
