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More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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?
Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.
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.
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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.
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
