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More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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.
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.
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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.
