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.
UPTON SINCLAIRThey use everything about the hog except the squeal.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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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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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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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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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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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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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.
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Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure – such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
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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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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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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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