Upton Sinclair

“So he went on, tearing up all the flowers from the garden of his soul, and setting his heel upon them.”

— Upton Sinclair

I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

— Upton Sinclair

“Study and think and improve your mind, and keep it clear of all this fog of hatred and propaganda”

— Upton Sinclair

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

— Upton Sinclair

“Can you not see that the task is your task - yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute?”

— Upton Sinclair

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

— Upton Sinclair

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

— Upton Sinclair

“In every newspaper-office in America the same struggle between the business-office and the news-department is going on all the time.”

— Upton Sinclair

“This was in truth not living; it was scarcely even existing, and they felt that it was too little for the price…

— Upton Sinclair

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion…

— Upton Sinclair

“…for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they…

— Upton Sinclair

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one…

— Upton Sinclair

“To Jurgis the packers had been the equivalent to fate; Ostrinski showed him that they were the Beef Trust. They were a…

— Upton Sinclair

“All of this might seem diabolical, but the saloon-keeper was in no wise to blame for it. He was in the same…

— Upton Sinclair

It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room…

— Upton Sinclair

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that…

— Upton Sinclair

“We have a flabby public opinion which would wring its hands in anguish if we took the labor leader by the scruff…

— Upton Sinclair

“This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and only once; after that…

— Upton Sinclair

Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system…

— Upton Sinclair

“Surely it is moderate to say that the dish-washing for a family of five takes half an hour a day; with ten…

— Upton Sinclair

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

“...Nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule—if you met a man who was…

— Upton Sinclair

The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End…

— Upton Sinclair

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so…

— Upton Sinclair

“Sinclair’s was also an age when writers, both journalists and novelists, were experiencing a thrilling sense of their own efficacy. The investigative…

— Upton Sinclair

“They could tell the whole hateful story of it, set forth in the inner soul of a city in which honor and…

— Upton Sinclair

“One could not stand and watch very long without being philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear…

— Upton Sinclair

It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet…

— Upton Sinclair

“There were twelve in all in the party, five adults and six children—and Ona, who was a little of both. They had…

— Upton Sinclair

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life…

— Upton Sinclair

“Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they…

— Upton Sinclair

So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled…

— Upton Sinclair

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

— Upton Sinclair

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

— Upton Sinclair

“...and the wild beast rose up within him and screamed, as it had screamed in the Jungle from the dawn of time.”

— Upton Sinclair

Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown…

— Upton Sinclair

“Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming…

— Upton Sinclair

“The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge…

— Upton Sinclair

I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social…

— Upton Sinclair

“And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very…

— Upton Sinclair