Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
UPTON SINCLAIRThrough fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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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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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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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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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 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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Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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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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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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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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