78 Quotes by Lincoln Steffens

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.

I have seen the future, and it works.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.