Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes
- America is a tune. It must be sung together.
- Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.
- The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
- Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
- There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always…
- 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 it,…
- What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.
- A vice is a failure of desire
- I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has…
- There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man…
- The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would…
- Crowds speak in heroes.
- Machinery makes men like itself.
- We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what…
- New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.
- The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time.
- Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles…
- The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through…
- No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.
- It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.