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More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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.
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.
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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.
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.
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
