But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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