Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

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

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

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

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.

Machinery makes men like itself.

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, and at last the indifference because any one would.

A vice is a failure of desire

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

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

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

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

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

Crowds speak in heroes.

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.

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

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