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More Quotes by 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.
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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.
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!
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.
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?
