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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?

Upton Sinclair

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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Believe Goodness
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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Hope Joy Life Limitation Old Seek
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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Art Escape World
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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Country Faith Liberty Myself Ourselves Religious Suffering
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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Difficult Himself Men People Understand Wisdom
I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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Accident Heart Hit Mistake Myself People
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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Competition Money Necessary Power Society Waste
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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Himself Man Strange
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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Art Change Creativity Happiness Optimistic Practice Tragedy True Work
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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Evidence Fools Reality
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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Body Existence Goodness Gratitude Health Human Joy Myself Perfection Potential
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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Blame Evil Honesty Media Myself
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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Faith God Goodness Myself Process Trust Worth
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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Art Enough Himself Purpose Thinking Time Writing
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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Believe Care Fight Heart Justice Myself Word
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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History Religion Science

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