One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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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.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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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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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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