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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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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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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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
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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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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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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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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 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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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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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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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