It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
UPTON SINCLAIRBut 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.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
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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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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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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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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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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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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.
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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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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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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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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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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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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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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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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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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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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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