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 SINCLAIRIt is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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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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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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Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
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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.
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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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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.
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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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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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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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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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