Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times.” — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“He learned that love is not all pleasure, but can be agony and heartache, martyrdom and sacrifice. He learned what the clergyman was talking… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“We have a flabby public opinion which would wring its hands in anguish if we took the labor leader by the scruff of his… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“He seemed to be growing conservative, allying himself with Göring’s friends, the great industrialists, and forgetting the promises he had made to the common… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it,… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Now I ask you: could any muck-raker in a rage make up a list of titles more completely expressive of vulgarity, commercialism and general… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.” — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
