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…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

— 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…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it…

— 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…

— 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…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

A vice is a failure of desire

— Gerald Stanley Lee

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

— 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…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Machinery makes men like itself.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

When America has been discovered in America it will be discovered in Europe. They are looking for America now.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Crowds speak in heroes.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

— Gerald Stanley Lee