Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
Upton SinclairIt is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
Upton SinclairAll 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.
Upton Sinclair