The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
UPTON SINCLAIRIn the twilight, it was a vision of power.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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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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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 proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art’s sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore – and then there will be time enough for art.
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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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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 foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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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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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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You don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn’t like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I’ve been trying to change it ever since.
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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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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