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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.
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.
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.
I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them 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.
They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?
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.
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
