black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Upton Sinclair

Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Existence Feeling Health Human Myself Perfection
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 SINCLAIR

Book History Oneself Word
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Power Vision
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Myself Observe Wonder
You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Career Job Understand Work Yourself
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Evidence Fools Reality
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Mental Person Sick Society Voice
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Born Fear Growth Religion Study
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

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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Faith God Goodness Myself Process Trust Worth
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Desire Fate Kind Life Men Philosophy Prison
But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Battle Devil Force Give Up Himself Human Nature Strength
The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Hope Joy Life Limitation Old Seek
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Body Existence Goodness Gratitude Health Human Joy Myself Perfection Potential
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Death Injustice Nation Politics
I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Accident Heart Hit Mistake Myself People
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Institution Media Poor Rich
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Believe Care Fight Heart Justice Myself Word
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Art Enough Himself Purpose Thinking Time Writing
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
UPTON SINCLAIR

History Religion Science
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Country Faith Liberty Myself Ourselves Religious Suffering
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Believe Goodness
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Greatness Money Sun
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.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Depression Greatness Result Team Work
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Competition Money Necessary Power Society Waste
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Himself Man Strange
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
UPTON SINCLAIR

Exception Tools Use Work

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Upton Sinclair Quotes