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.
UPTON SINCLAIROver the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.
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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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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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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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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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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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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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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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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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 difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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But 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.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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