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.
UPTON SINCLAIRIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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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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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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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.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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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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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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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 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 truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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