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More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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?
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.
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science.
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 they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
