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More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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?
The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.
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.
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!
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science.
