Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
UPTON SINCLAIRFascism is capitalism plus murder.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
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There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
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I don’t know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- ‘social justice.’ For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
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The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.
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All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
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You don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn’t like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I’ve been trying to change it ever since.
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