One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
UPTON SINCLAIRWe 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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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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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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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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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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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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Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure – such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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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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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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But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.
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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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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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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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