Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
UPTON SINCLAIRThe private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.
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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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The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.
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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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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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We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
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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.
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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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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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