On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWISOne quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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 have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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