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Lincoln Steffens Quotes

«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.»
«Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.»
Author: Lincoln Steffens | About: Power | Keywords: abuse, abuse of power, group
«Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.»
Author: Lincoln Steffens | About: Morality | Keywords: voluntary
«Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.»
Author: Lincoln Steffens | About: Art | Keywords: border
«Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.»
Author: Lincoln Steffens | About: Chicago | Keywords: Chicago, sporting, The Sporting
«The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his life's adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings»
«I have been over into the future, and it works.»
«I have seen the future; and it works. (Following a visit to the Soviet Union in 1919)»