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Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes

1862–1944 United States

Gerald Stanley Lee (1862 – 1944) was an American Congregational clergyman and the author of numerous books and essays.

United States
Essayists
Religious leaders

Also known as: Lee, Gerald Stanley

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10 quotes

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

Crowds (1913)

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

Crowds (1913)

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Crowds (1913)

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

Crowds (1913)

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

Crowds (1913)

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Crowds (1913)

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

Crowds (1913)

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

Crowds (1913)

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.

Crowds (1913)

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.

Crowds (1913)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gerald Stanley Lee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.