Painful memories Quotes by Upton Sinclair

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

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

“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

“...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times.”

— Upton Sinclair

“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

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

“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

“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

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

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

— Upton Sinclair

“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

“In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.”

— Upton Sinclair