Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Joseph Steffenswas a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's, called Tweed Days in St. Louis, that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is remembered for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his early support for the Soviet Union...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 April 1866
CountryUnited States of America
government people psychology
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.
successful intelligent needs
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
spiritual space people
Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion.
contending has-beens
I have been contending all my life, and always with God.
christian church heard
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
government administration reform
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
boston practice hypocrisy
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
mother father light
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
horse young
You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.
reality care want
Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.
men abuse stories
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
mistake father parent
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.
baby children teaching
And 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; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you: Remember we really don't know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.
adventure fields students
The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings