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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- Germaine Greer Australia Academic
- Carl Bernstein American Journalist
- Norman Cousins American Journalist
- Walter Lippmann American Journalist
- H. L. Mencken American Journalist, Literary Critic
- James Fallows American Journalist
- Randy Pausch American Computer Scientist
- Daniel J. Boorstin American Historian
- William Graham Sumner American Polymath
- John Kotter American Management Consultant
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