I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
SINCLAIR LEWISOn the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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