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.
UPTON SINCLAIR- 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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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.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
UPTON SINCLAIRI aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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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.
UPTON SINCLAIRI 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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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
UPTON SINCLAIRTurn 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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Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
UPTON SINCLAIRPessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
UPTON SINCLAIROne of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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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.
UPTON SINCLAIRWe 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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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
UPTON SINCLAIRIn 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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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.
UPTON SINCLAIRThere 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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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.
UPTON SINCLAIRBut 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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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.
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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I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
UPTON SINCLAIRI am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
UPTON SINCLAIRThey use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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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.
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.
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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
UPTON SINCLAIRDad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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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.
UPTON SINCLAIRYou 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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