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.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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