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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 private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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?
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy what they call the "good-will"- that is, they buy you. And they proceed to change your whole psychology - everything that you believe about life. You might object to it, if you knew; but they do their work so subtly that you never guess what is happening to you!
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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.
