Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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