We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
UPTON SINCLAIRThe old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
-
-
Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
UPTON SINCLAIR -
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 -
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 -
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
UPTON SINCLAIR -
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
UPTON SINCLAIR -
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
UPTON SINCLAIR -
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
UPTON SINCLAIR -
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 -
The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
UPTON SINCLAIR -
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 -
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR -
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 -
I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
UPTON SINCLAIR -
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
UPTON SINCLAIR -
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
UPTON SINCLAIR