American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
UPTON SINCLAIRAll art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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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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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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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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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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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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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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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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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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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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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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