Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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