Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Lincoln Steffens (American Journalist)

Lincoln Joseph Steffens (1846–1936) was a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure’s, called Tweed Days in St. Louis, that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is remembered for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his early support for the Soviet Union.

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Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Lincoln Steffens
Topics: Morality

That what is true of business and politics is gloriously true of the professions, the arts and crafts, the sciences, the sports. That the best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.
Lincoln Steffens

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Lincoln Steffens
Topics: Power

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn’t are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.
Lincoln Steffens
Topics: Risk

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

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Lincoln Steffens
Topics: Art

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