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 SINCLAIRCan 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 SINCLAIRFascism is capitalism plus murder.
UPTON SINCLAIRThey use everything about the hog except the squeal.
UPTON SINCLAIRYou can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
UPTON SINCLAIRIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
UPTON SINCLAIRMan is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
UPTON SINCLAIRThe 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 SINCLAIRAll art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
UPTON SINCLAIRI 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 SINCLAIRPessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
UPTON SINCLAIROne of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
UPTON SINCLAIRThe old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
UPTON SINCLAIRThe private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
UPTON SINCLAIRWe define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
UPTON SINCLAIROver the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
UPTON SINCLAIRI aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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