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 SINCLAIR
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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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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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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