I discover that hardly a week passes that some one does not start a new cult, or revive an old one; if I had a hundred life-times I could not know all the creeds and ceremonies, the services and rituals, the litanies and liturgies, the hymns, anthems and offertories of Bootstrap-lifting.
Upton SinclairWhat life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola . The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of "art for art's sake" than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore and then there will be time enough for art.
Upton SinclairLet us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love , which knows that it is not free !
Upton SinclairAll art is propaganda . It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
Upton SinclairI used to say to our audiences: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Upton SinclairFascism is capitalism plus murder .
Upton SinclairI just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
Upton SinclairThe 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.
Upton SinclairNow and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life ; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come.
Upton SinclairAn event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
Upton SinclairWherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spying, and a chance for somebody whose brains were "all there."
Upton SinclairIt was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.
Upton SinclairI discover that hardly a week passes that some one does not start a new cult, or revive an old one; if I had a hundred life-times I could not know all the creeds and ceremonies, the services and rituals, the litanies and liturgies, the hymns, anthems and offertories of Bootstrap-lifting.
Upton SinclairMan is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate.
Upton Sinclair