Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
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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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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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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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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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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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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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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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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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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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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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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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