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More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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.
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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.
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
