The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
UPTON SINCLAIRI aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art’s sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore – and then there will be time enough for art.
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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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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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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion 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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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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