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.
SINCLAIR LEWISUnder a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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There 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.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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