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 SINCLAIRThe 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 SINCLAIRFascism is capitalism plus murder.
UPTON SINCLAIRAll art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
UPTON SINCLAIRYou 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.
UPTON SINCLAIRAll 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 SINCLAIRCan 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 SINCLAIROver the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
UPTON SINCLAIRI 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 SINCLAIRBut 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 SINCLAIRHuman 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 SINCLAIRThey use everything about the hog except the squeal.
UPTON SINCLAIRAn 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 SINCLAIRIn a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
UPTON SINCLAIRYou can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
UPTON SINCLAIRPessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
UPTON SINCLAIRAmerican journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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