Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
SINCLAIR LEWISAn 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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