“Sinclair’s was also an age when writers, both journalists and novelists, were experiencing a thrilling sense of their own efficacy. The investigative exposé—what President Theodore Roosevelt would unflatteringly dub “muckraking,” after the character in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678,… — 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
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
“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
“...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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share
“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
“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
“Study and think and improve your mind, and keep it clear of all this fog of hatred and propaganda” — Upton Sinclair Copy Share
“When one comes to the ultra-modern profession of advertising," responded Schliemann—"the science of persuading people to buy what they do not want—he is in… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share
