I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
UPTON SINCLAIRI just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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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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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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In 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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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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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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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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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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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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