black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Upton Sinclair

They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Exception Tools Use Work
We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Business Country Media Practice Privilege
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Faith God Goodness Myself Process Trust Worth
Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Existence Feeling Health Human Myself Perfection
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Believe Goodness
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 SINCLAIR

Book History Oneself Word
You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Career Job Understand Work Yourself
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Accomplishment Corruption Democracy Necessary Oneself Politics
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Desire Fate Kind Life Men Philosophy Prison
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Art Escape World
You don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn’t like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I’ve been trying to change it ever since.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Change Country Satisfaction Yourself
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Mental Person Sick Society Voice
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Greatness Money Sun
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Crime Ignorance Mindset Stupidity
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Business Discover Money Pieces
I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Accident Heart Hit Mistake Myself People

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Upton Sinclair Quotes