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.
UPTON SINCLAIRThe old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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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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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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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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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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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
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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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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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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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