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?
UPTON SINCLAIRI 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.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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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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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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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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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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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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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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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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