Lincoln Steffens Famous Quotes



"Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story."


Lincoln Steffens Quotations






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"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it."
Marquis de Vauvenargues

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain."
German proverb

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Care and diligence bring luck.
Thomas Fuller

"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
John Sales

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Gloria Steinem

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to."
New England Proverb

"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."
Golda Meir