On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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