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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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?
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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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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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The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
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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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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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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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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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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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