There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
Sinclair LewisWhatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
Sinclair LewisYou're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Sinclair LewisUpon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.
Sinclair Lewis