Quotes by Lincoln Steffens

“An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents and his grandparents generation have got through molding it. We cant help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but ...”

“morality is moral only when it is voluntary”

“Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.”

“The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.”

“Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.”

“The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, ...”

“Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,'...”

“If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.”

“If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that ...”

“The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.”

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

“I have been over into the future, and it works.”

“In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.”

“An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents’ and his grandparents’ generation have got through molding it. We can’t help teaching you; you will ask that of us; b...”

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

“The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.”

“I have seen the Future, and it works.”

“Soviet Russia was a revolutionary government with an evolutionary plan. Their plan was, not by direct action to resist such evils as poverty and riches, graft, privilege, tyranny, and war, but to s...”

“It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.”

“Lincoln Steffens, his papers seized by Wilson, secretly came to tell the people of what had happened in Russia.”