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• I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.

  Upton Sinclair

  Perfect, Body, Good Health

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Fasting Cure”, p.7, Youcanprint

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• In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

  Upton Sinclair

  Competition, Facts, Tests

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.329, Xist Publishing

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• I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.

  Upton Sinclair

  Process, Good Faith

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• We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

  Upton Sinclair

  Media, Practice, America

  Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.236, Open Road Media

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• But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my
  country.

  Upton Sinclair

  Country, Religious, Suffering

  Upton Sinclair (2004). “The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California”, p.55, Heyday

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• Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

  Upton Sinclair

  Dad, Newspapers

  Upton Sinclair (2007). “Oil!”, p.214, Penguin

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• 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?

  Upton Sinclair

  Humble, Men, Fire

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.260, First Avenue Editions

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• Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

  Upton Sinclair

  Perfect, Feelings, Fasting

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• Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.

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  Drama, Grief, Writing

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “Dragon's Teeth”, p.483, Open Road Media

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• The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.

  Upton Sinclair

  Mean, Giving, Way

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• If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

  Upton Sinclair

  Able, Sun, Captains Of Industry

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.196, Xist Publishing

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• All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

  Upton Sinclair

  Art, Sometimes, Propaganda

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• All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

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  Art, Optimistic, Creative

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• I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

  Upton Sinclair

  Organization, Three, Married

  Interview in "The New York Times", September 7, 1962.

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• Man 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. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?

  Upton Sinclair

  Fate, Animal, Men

  "The Profits of Religion : An Essay in Economic Interpretation". Book by Upton Sinclair, Introductory, "Bootstrap-lifting", 1918.

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• There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.

  Upton Sinclair

  Order, Heaven, Religion

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

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  Country, Men, Two

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.227, First Avenue Editions

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• It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

  Upton Sinclair

  Apology, Thinking, Insult To Injury

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• And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,-sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out into the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! This contributed to the passing of the Pure Food Act of 1906.

  Upton Sinclair

  Science, Men, Law

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• But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

  Upton Sinclair

  Giving Up, Battle, Devil

  Upton Sinclair (2014). “The Profits of Religion”, p.262, Trajectory Inc

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• An 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 Sinclair

  Long, Events, May

  Upton Sinclair “100%: The Story of a Patriot”, Lulu.com

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• Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

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  Wall, Dollars, Pieces

  Upton Sinclair (2012). “The Money Changers”, p.178, Courier Corporation

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• Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

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  Strange, Incredibles, Bootstraps

  Upton Sinclair (2014). “The Profits of Religion”, p.17, Trajectory Inc

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• 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 Sinclair

  Beautiful, Art, Men

  Cosmopolitan, October, 1906.

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• It 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 Sinclair

  Men, Cells, Mind

  Upton Sinclair “100%: The Story of a Patriot”, Lulu.com

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