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.
SINCLAIR LEWISBut the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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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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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