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.
UPTON SINCLAIRBut the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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