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.
SINCLAIR LEWISPugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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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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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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