All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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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An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
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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 foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
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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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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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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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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 am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
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Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
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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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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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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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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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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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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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