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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 815fa83 | not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat--and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going. The | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 9a007b6 | It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --UPTON SINCLAIR" | Anthony Robbins | ||
| 10e2f0c | Everywhere I turn I see it--credulity being exploited, and men of practical judgment, watching the game and seeing through it, made hard in their attitude of materialism. How | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 052202c | in a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power. So | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 6368a2b | Capitalists," he argued, "will not agree to any social progress completely eliminating unemployment because such a program would reduce the supply of cheap labor. You will never persuade a capitalist to cause himself losses for the sake of satisfying people's needs." | Greg Mitchell | ||
| ca3aace | American novelist and muckraker Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland during the tumultuous post Civil War-era. | Michael Jason Brandt | ||
| 1fe9e7c | As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" | Naomi Klein | ||
| 2cc380d | Dieve--but I'm glad I'm not a hog. | packingtown the-jungle upton-sinclair | Upton Sinclair | |
| ac9ad9b | In the second decade of this century of enlightenment and progress, in our free American democracy, whose constitution proclaims religious toleration, and forbids the establishment by the state of any form of worship, I was made to serve a sentence of eighteen hours in the state prison of Delaware for playing a game of tennis on the Sabbath. I | Upton Sinclair | ||
| d95b79c | just | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 9dd1d70 | proposal was | Upton Sinclair | ||
| e4838cb | proceeded to clear a way to the hall. Once | Upton Sinclair | ||
| b5376d9 | Polish, Lithuanian, and German--"Dom." | Upton Sinclair | ||
| fdee184 | forty thousand of them. It was a | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 787caa5 | The musicians-how shall one begin to describe them? All this time they have been there, playing in a mad frenzy-all of this scene must be read, or said, or sung, to music. It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little corner of the high mansions of the sky. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| af47456 | Upton Sinclair | Cristian Vlad Zot | ||
| 33bd3b1 | I am glad I have caught up with you, | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| 2a96e83 | Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimize the importance of the individual and maximize the importance of the group. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| c555ce1 | What kind of idiot would knowingly date a girl named Knives? | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 1692f16 | If bad were a boot, you'd fit it! | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| c3edb59 | It's called 'You Just Don't Exist.' I'm co-starring with Winifred Hailey. It's like, a romantic comedy. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 75ccd71 | The tears came into Christiana's eyes, | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| 65b6715 | What is it like? | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| 00436a9 | The little pilgrims lay down side by side and slept quietly until the morning. | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| e8f0212 | always meant to run away someday. | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| 5f3ee08 | It is very wrong of you, Christiana, to think of leaving them. | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| d8fd076 | It is no use wasting our time, | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| a06477e | You must keep them as tidy as you can, | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| 66a0dcb | You know what I mean," answered" | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| 57cfed9 | the children helped each other as much as they could. | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| fc69ace | Hopeful kept close to him, | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| 37d54f0 | His mother was standing before him, | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| e099eee | Christian knew her in a moment, | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| a95d7ae | I don't know which is right! | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| 61406e6 | Human beings don't necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered, or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 0276a87 | While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 92e2429 | shalom bayit, | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 702409f | chesed | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 6240191 | Fear brings out the basest instincts," writes British political scientist Sue Goss, "and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation."16" | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 45d59c0 | Irenaeus of Lyon (ca. 115-202): "The glory of God is the human person fully alive." | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| e7f61d3 | Whereas militant Christianity triumphs over all, generative Christianity transforms the world through humble service to all. It is not about victory; it is about following Christ in order to seed human community with grace. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 3c2ff42 | The Samaritans and the Jews were enemies, two tribes caught in an ancient argument about birthright and ethnicity who lived in segregated neighborhoods. By Jesus's time they were forbidden to have contact with each other, and violent squabbles sometimes erupted. The lawyer, who was a Jew, surely knew of both the informal customs and formal laws separating the two groups. Samaritans and Jews were not good neighbors. Yet Jesus turns the ancie.. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 4da3e02 | Theologians pitted devotion and morality against belief, defining faith no longer as a way of life but rather as intellectual assent to certain creeds or confessions; their books were filled with "quarrelling, disputing, scolding, and reviling."38" | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 1b2fbde | The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home. | faith home | Diana Butler Bass |