But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWISIntellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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