Upton Sinclair Short Quotes

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

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

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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

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He was the true king of our story tellers, the brightest star that flashed upon our skies.

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

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Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!

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It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

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

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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science....

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We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

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I used to say to our audiences: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

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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 an honest and disinterested press?

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But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

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An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

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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 been mislaid.

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

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It is up to you to prove that human beings do not have to be prowling wolves or sly lynxes, but can be rational, just, and kindly members of a commonwealth.

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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 wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

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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 is what I have believed in and fought for.

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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 the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

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The story of the hero who slays the devouring dragon was not merely a symbol of day and night, of summer and winter; it was a literal explanation of the phenomena, it was the science of early times.

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Wherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spying, and a chance for somebody whose brains were "all there."

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