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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Through 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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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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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure – such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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