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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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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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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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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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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