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More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
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.
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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 foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
