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.

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It was the incarnation of blind and insensate Greed. It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs it was the Great Butcher--it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh.

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I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.

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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

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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.

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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

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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.

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Consider Christmascould 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 overeatingall in the name of the lowly Jesus

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Chophouse. It was his descriptions of meat, though, that most concerned Americans. Even President Theodore Roosevelt seemed to be more shocked by the details of how cattle and hogs were being sliced into beef and pork--and by how much condemned meat was ending up on American dinner tables--than by the workers' plight. Within a matter of months, Sinclair's book became an international bestseller and sparked legislation regulating the meat industry for the first time. I aimed for the public's heart, ... and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

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