Upton Sinclair Quotes

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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…
• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
• Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
• It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most…
• They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
• 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…
• All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
• A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed…
• All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents…
• Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that…
• 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…
• Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
• Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had…
• One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
• It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon…
• The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
• There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed…

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