Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
UPTON SINCLAIRAll art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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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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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
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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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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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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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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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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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I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.
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