When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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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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My 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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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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