Quotes from 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.

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.

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 we do, we have hell anyway.

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

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

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.