More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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?
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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.
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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.
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.
