But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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