Upton Sinclair Quote by Jill Lepore

“Lying can be a second skin, but when you are called out on that lie, it can become all too easy for that skin…

— Jillian Cantor

I never consciously set out to model myself after Upton Sinclair.

— Eric Schlosser

I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

The Upton Sinclair of today's global economy is Charles Kernaghan, the New York based muckraker most famous for his expose of sweatshops producing the…

— Charles Derber

I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago…

— David Schwimmer

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time,…

— Dorothy Parker

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is…

— Dorothy Parker

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad…

— H. L. Mencken

“Upton Sinclair once said, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

— Yanis Varoufakis

I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live in worlds…

— John Darnielle

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’ – Upton Sinclair, American writer”

— Tim Noakes

With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified…

— Bob Shacochis

“I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Upton Sinclair once noted, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”)”

— Dan Ariely

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad…

— H. L. Mencken