On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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