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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
― Upton Sinclair
Wisdom
Men
People
Upton Sinclair
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
― Upton Sinclair
Real
Foolish
Evidence
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.
― Upton Sinclair
America
Years
Trying
Upton Sinclair
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
― Upton Sinclair
Book
Heart
Beer
Upton Sinclair
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.
― Upton Sinclair
Heart
Two
Justice
Upton Sinclair
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
― Upton Sinclair
Political
Democracy
Corruption
Upton Sinclair
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.
― Upton Sinclair
Two
People
Political
Upton Sinclair
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.
― Upton Sinclair
Running
Lying
Epic
Upton Sinclair
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
― Upton Sinclair
Understanding
Salary
Depends
Upton Sinclair
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
― Upton Sinclair
Credit
Slavery
Modern
Upton Sinclair
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
― Upton Sinclair
Tyrants
Murder
Plus
Upton Sinclair
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!
― Upton Sinclair
Believe
Media
Names
Upton Sinclair
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.
― Upton Sinclair
Stupidity
Sloth
Brain
Upton Sinclair
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?
― Upton Sinclair
Media
Evil
Honest
Upton Sinclair
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
― Upton Sinclair
Media
Class
Journalism
Upton Sinclair
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.
― Upton Sinclair
Men
Desire
Bars
Upton Sinclair
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.
― Upton Sinclair
Firsts
Study
Ancient
Upton Sinclair
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
― Upton Sinclair
Use
Squealing
Hog
Upton Sinclair
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?
― Upton Sinclair
Religious
Jesus
Children
Upton Sinclair
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
― Upton Sinclair
Men
Strange
Beast
Upton Sinclair
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