One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
UPTON SINCLAIRAmerican journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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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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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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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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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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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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Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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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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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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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 art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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