Upton Sinclair

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“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 been able to get a decent existence for their bodies?”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the knowledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“…for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable!”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“I say there is no modern evil which cannot be justified by these ancient texts; and there is nowhere in Christendom a clergy which cannot be persuaded to cite them at the demand of ruling classes.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“It is not the New Inquisition which is our enemy today; it is hereditary Privilege. It is not Superstition, but Big Business which makes use of Superstition as a wolf makes use of sheep's clothing.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“she was standing upon the brink of the pit of hell and throwing in snowballs to lower the temperature.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“The police, and the strikers also, were determined that there should be no violence; but there was another party interested which was minded to the contrary—and that was the press.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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“They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.”

― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)