Quotes from lee gerald stanley

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

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 modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

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

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 be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.

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 who puts service first and money second, who never has any money. The first class man in business is the man who is made up out of rolling the other two kinds into one man and working them together.

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 we do, we have hell anyway.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

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

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 had before.

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

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

A vice is a failure of desire.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

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

Machinery makes men like itself.