An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
UPTON SINCLAIRFascism is capitalism plus murder.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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I don’t know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- ‘social justice.’ For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
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Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
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Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
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But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
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I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
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It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
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