black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

Upton Sinclair

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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Believe Care Fight Heart Justice Myself Word
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
UPTON SINCLAIR

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

Exception Tools Use Work
The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Hope Joy Life Limitation Old Seek
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
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
UPTON SINCLAIR

History Religion Science
I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Accident Heart Hit Mistake Myself People
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Depression Greatness Result Team 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
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Drama Fate Grief Human Magic Past Poet Remember Sad Spirit Strange Suffering Tragedy Word Writing
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Institution Media Poor Rich
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
I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Experience Marriage Myself Time
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?
UPTON SINCLAIR

Blame Evil Honesty Media Myself
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Art Change Creativity Happiness Optimistic Practice Tragedy True Work
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

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Upton Sinclair Quotes