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.
UPTON SINCLAIRIf 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.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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.
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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.
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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
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The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
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Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
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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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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.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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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.
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Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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