Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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