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.
UPTON SINCLAIRIt is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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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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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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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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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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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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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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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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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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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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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.
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