The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
UPTON SINCLAIRFascism is capitalism plus murder.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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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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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
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It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.
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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.
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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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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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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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