But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWISI 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!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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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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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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