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Gerald Stanley Lee
12 quotes
“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 (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Business today consists in persuading crowds.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Crowds speak in heroes.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1862–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is idle to say you are only fining a man a farthing, if he chooses to say it is his lucky farthing. It is waste of breath to call a thing a rag when he calls it a flag. This is the fallacy of those who, like Mr. Gerald Stanley Lee, the able American critic, imagine that a war must be a misunderstanding, which social intercourse and explanation would have set right.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: G. K. Chesterton, "Is the War Just a Misunderstanding" (January 29, 1916), reported in The collected works of G. K. Chesterton: Volume 30 (1988), p. 366.