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More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science.
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
