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.
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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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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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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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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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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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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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.
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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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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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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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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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