When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
SINCLAIR LEWISThink of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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