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.
UPTON SINCLAIRHuman 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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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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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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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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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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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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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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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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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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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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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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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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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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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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