black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

Upton Sinclair

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
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 SINCLAIR

Change Music Place Room Sky Wonderful
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Accomplishment Corruption Democracy Necessary Oneself Politics
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
I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Body Existence Goodness Gratitude Health Human Joy Myself Perfection Potential
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Power Vision
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Crime Ignorance Mindset Stupidity
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Believe Goodness
An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
UPTON SINCLAIR

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

Accident Heart Hit Mistake Myself People
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
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Death Injustice Nation Politics
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Competition Money Necessary Power Society Waste
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
But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Battle Devil Force Give Up Himself Human Nature Strength
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

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Upton Sinclair Quotes