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
cities giving chicago
Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
father practice care
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
world seeing
It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
done university has-beens
It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.
men jumping tree
Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.
jesus doctrine revolutionary
The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
mother spoons captains
My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
russia said has-beens
So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.
lying atheism greater
The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.
art flower civilization
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
cities village dirt
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
party two 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 is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
believe atheism forget
We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.
I have seen the future, and it works.