Upton Sinclair Quotes

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• The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
• And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of…
• I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
• Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . .…
• I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
• The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking ship…
• The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed…
• 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…
• In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
• 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 some…
• In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
• Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
• There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where…
• 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…
• Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred…
• 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…
• American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
• We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
• When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy…
• They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach…

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