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Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans. (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art’s sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art. (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way. (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
In the twilight, it was a vision of power (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
They use everything about the hog except the squeal (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
I used to say to our audiences: It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Through fasting...I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science (Upton Sinclair Quotes)
I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn’t read ‘the Jungle’ in high school or anything like that. But it’s pretty terrific writing (Upton Sinclair Quotes)