I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
UPTON SINCLAIRTurn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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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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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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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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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 supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
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If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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