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More Quotes by Upton Sinclair
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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.
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.
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.
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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.
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
