I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a…

Quote byGerald Stanley Lee · 1862–1944

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Crowds (1913), Book II, Chapter III..

English (original)

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

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.