21 Quotes by Gerald Stanley Lee

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

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

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

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.

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

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

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.

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.

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.