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.
SINCLAIR LEWISExcept for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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