American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
UPTON SINCLAIRMan is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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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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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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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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