When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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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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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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