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| 135b40b | In 1934, with the country nowhere near able to climb out of the Great Depression, Upton Sinclair, famous for his muckraking novel The Jungle and his socialistic solutions for the ailing economy, had swept the Democratic primary for governor of California. (He was hardly alone in turning to socialism at such a dire time.) Mayer, fearful Sinclair would tax the movie studios to pay for his socialist programs, warned that MGM and other studios .. | Edward Sorel | ||
| 6399c1d | be yourself." Great-Great-Uncle Eli" | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 3e2d178 | be yourself." Great-Great-Uncle Eli was a "transcendentalist," having known many of the old New England group. There is something in us all, he said, that is greater than ourselves, that works through us and can be used in the making of character. The central core of life is personality. To respect the personality of others is the beginning of virtue, and to enforce respect for it is the first duty of the individual toward all forms of gove.. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 1cc3b56 | and impatience sets traps for us, and prepares regrets that sometimes last all our lives. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| c3a8bfd | It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.' - Upton Sinclair, American writer | Tim Noakes | ||
| 8a8359a | wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 5706ba3 | Friendship is a delightful thing when you have had the good judgment to choose the right friends. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| b0278b1 | The young people come along, and clamor so loudly for their share, and have so little idea of the pain that awaits them. One's heart aches at the knowledge, but one cannot tell them; they have to have their own way and pay their own penalties. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 105744d | This Hitler movement was a revolt of the lower middle classes, whose savings had been wiped out by the inflation and who saw themselves being reduced to the status of proletarians. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 7e825fe | Montesquieu had said that to love reading was to exchange hours of boredom for hours of delight; Laharpe had said that a book is a friend that never deceives. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| aa7c9b2 | No matter whether it was true or not--for Adi meant literally his maxim that the bigger the falsehood, the easier to get it believed; people would say you wouldn't dare make up a thing like that. Imagine the worst possible about your enemies and then swear that you knew it, you had seen it, it was God's truth and you were ready to stake your life upon it--shout this, bellow this, over and over, day after day, night after night. If one perso.. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| b0d6674 | Such was the new technique for the conquest of power. Fool those who were foolable, buy those who were buyable, and kill the rest. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 822c82b | If I could, I would begin this book by telling you what Life is. But unfortunately I do not know what Life is. The only consolation I can find is in the fact that nobody else knows either. | philosophy | Upton Sinclair | |
| b6805ae | So it is that political parties degenerate; so the common people give their devotion to a cause, and discover too late how they have been betrayed. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 4afc318 | Adolf Hitler facts had no meaning except as they served his purpose. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 6d88553 | political opinions were an arsenal of weapons from which he picked up those which served his need at a certain moment of conflict. When conscientious, | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 04d3250 | the dark shadow of conflict was looming over the world again; but no use to say it, for people didn't want to believe it and they knew how to believe what they chose. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 3cd13a1 | Political slogans are like grain scattered to draw birds into a snare. Find out who's putting up the money for a political party, and then you know what it will do. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 72b1298 | he had read in an encyclopedia article entitled "Obstetrics." From boyhood he had had the habit of looking up things in that dependable work; but," | Upton Sinclair | ||
| e2601bf | For when you let down the bars and admitted the right to lie and to cheat, you were undermining the very bases upon which human societies are built. Particularly when you admitted the right of political parties to lie and cheat, for how, then, could anybody have faith in them? How could their own followers know what they were or what they would become? | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 03966c2 | No, among Catholics one did not question the purity of the Holy Virgin, and among Nazis one didn't question the honor of the Fuhrer. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| a47d1d8 | He seemed to be growing conservative, allying himself with Goring's friends, the great industrialists, and forgetting the promises he had made to the common man. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| d5a4e29 | But they were civilized cats, which had learned manners, and applied psychology, pretending to be gentle and harmless, even amiable. The deadliest killers wore the most cordial smiles; the most cunning were the most dignified, the most exalted. They had a great cause, an historic destiny, a patriotic duty, an inspired leader. They said: "We are building a new Germany," and at the same time they thought: "How can I cut out this fellow's guts.. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 7316bdd | If you wanted to understand a politician you mustn't pay too much attention to his speeches, but find out who were his paymasters. A politician couldn't rise in public life, in France any more than in America, unless he had the backing of big money, and it was in times of crisis like this that he paid his debts. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 1e39872 | National Socialism was power without conscience; you might call it the culmination of capitalism, or a degenerate form of Bolshevism--names didn't matter, so long as you understood that it was counter-revolution. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 9129310 | For two thousand years the Jews had been scattered over the old Continent like thistledown in the wind; and the most carefully tended family trees don't always show what pollen has fallen upon them. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 0c7a7b5 | We have a flabby public opinion which would wring its hands in anguish if we took the labor leader by the scruff of his neck, backed him up against a wall, and filled him with lead. Countries which consider themselves every bit as civilized as we do not hesitate about such matters for a moment. Whenever | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 6c2276a | When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to ackn.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 40458ff | It's easy to be an idealist when you drive a Pajero. | money wealth | Mohsin Hamid | |
| fccf46a | Would you like your money starched, sir? Box or hanger? Thanks for using GloboBank. | money-laundering | Mohsin Hamid | |
| b0ca3ee | They were often very turbulent meetings, with half a dozen men declaiming at once, in as many dialects of English; but the speakers were all desperately in earnest, and Jurgis was in earnest too, for he understood that a fight was on, and that it was his fight. Since the time of his disillusionment, Jurgis had sworn to trust no man, except in his own family; but here he discovered that he had brothers in affliction, and allies. Their one ch.. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| f93d799 | The evangelist was preaching "sin and redemption," the infinite grace of God and His pardon for human frailty. He was very much in earnest, and he meant well, but Jurgis, as he listened, found his soul filled with hatred. What did he know about sin and suffering--with his smooth, black coat and his neatly starched collar, his body warm, and his belly full, and money in his pocket--and lecturing men who were struggling for their lives, men a.. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 708bf82 | As Jurgis lay on his bed, hour after hour there came to him emotions that he had never known before. Before this he had met life with a welcome--it had its trials, but none that a man could not face. But now, in the nighttime, when he lay tossing about, there would come stalking into his chamber a grisly phantom, the sight of which made his flesh curl and his hair to bristle up. It was like seeing the world fall away from underneath his fee.. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| ead17aa | The American people thoroughly despise and hate their newspapers; yet they seem to have no idea what to do about it, and take it for granted that they must go on reading falsehoods for the balance of their days! | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 90c58d2 | Pushing in among this mob of camp followers who identified political virtue with money for their rent came a flying squad who suffered not from hunger but from congested idealism: Intellectuals and Reformers and even Rugged Individualists, who saw in Windrip, for all his clownish swindlerism, a free vigor which promised a rejuvenation of the crippled and senile capitalistic system. Upton | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 4e2777f | Upton Sinclair dictum: it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. | Fred Reichheld | ||
| 427888d | Since his life had been caught up into the current of this great stream, things which had before been the whole of life to him came to seem of relatively slight importance; his interests were elsewhere, in the world of ideas. His outward life was commonplace and uninteresting; he was just a hotel-porter, and expected to remain one while he lived; but meantime, in the realm of thought, his life was a perpetual adventure. There was so much to.. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 08e5031 | albumen, and made other foul-smelling things into | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 9456c22 | In wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question. IV | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 427ffe6 | Marriage and prostitution were two sides of one shield, the predatory man's exploitation of the sex-pleasure. The difference between them was a difference of class. If a woman had money she might dictate her own terms: equality, a life contract, and the legitimacy--that is, the property-rights--of her children. If she had no money, she was a proletarian, and sold herself for an existence. And then the subject became Religion, which was the .. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 6a8f23e | Now I ask you: could any muck-raker in a rage make up a list of titles more completely expressive of vulgarity, commercialism and general "bunk" than the above real ones? I" | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 9bc8fc7 | In every newspaper-office in America the same struggle between the business-office and the news-department is going on all the time. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| ebf8d6d | Upton Sinclair once said, 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. | Yanis Varoufakis | ||
| af4a561 | The vilest deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. | Upton Sinclair |