Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes

• America is a tune. It must be sung together.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Jiu Jitsu, Moral, Kind

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• Crowds speak in heroes.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Hero, Crowds, Speak

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”

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• 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.

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  Principles, Modern Life, World

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Men, Hands, He Man

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”

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

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Children, Toes, Stockings

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• 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 over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Real, Hero, Pedestal

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”

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• 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 between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for -- the centre of mass.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Men, Cities, Numbers

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• 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.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Business, Men, Class

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1919). “The House of Twenty Seven Gardens”

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• Ser original es descubrir el lugar común de mil años, enfrentarse al principio a la burla de que a nadie se le habría ocurrido y, al final, a la indiferencia porque a nadie se le ocurriría.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Years, Lasts, Faces

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1896). “The Shadow Christ: An Introduction to Christ Himself”

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• 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.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  War, Vision, May

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1918). “The Air-line to Liberty: A Prospectus for All Nations”

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

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Business, Men, Machines

  "Crowds" by Gerald Stanley Lee, (Book II, Chapter V), 1913.

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

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Europe, America, Has Beens

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1918). “The Air-line to Liberty: A Prospectus for All Nations”

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

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  Years, Two, Spirit

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to many of us absolutely sound. Of course, we feel that it is not for us, those who love righteousness, to jump on the necks of the wicked. We prefer to have it attended to in a more dignified, impersonal way by Society as a whole.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Ideas, Evil, Wicked

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky men, and sky cities. Mountains of stone are built out of men's visions. Towers and skyscrapers swing up out of their wills and up out of their hearts.

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  Heart, Men, Swings

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”

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• I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Libro, Escritura, Hombres

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1919). “The House of Twenty Seven Gardens”

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

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Libro, Escritura, Hombres

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”

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• Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Mind, World, Machinery

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  World, Born, Industry

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1908). “Inspired Millionaires: A Forecast”

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

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  New York, Homelessness, Headquarters

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• El primer paso y el más práctico para conseguir lo que uno quiere en este mundo es desearlo. Uno pensaría que el siguiente paso sería expresar lo que uno quiere. Pero casi nunca es así. Generalmente consiste en desearlo aún más.

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  Thinking, Desire, Next Steps

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• 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.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Moving, Men, Progress

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• A vice is a failure of desire

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Failure, Desire, Vices

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• Machinery makes men like itself.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Men, Machines, Machinery

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1908). “Inspired Millionaires: An Interpretation of America”

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