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.
UPTON SINCLAIRThe 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.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
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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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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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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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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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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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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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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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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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