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More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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.
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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.
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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.
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?
