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More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science.
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.
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus?
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.
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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.
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
