Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
UPTON SINCLAIRThe 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.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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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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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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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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Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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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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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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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 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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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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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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