Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
Upton SinclairThrough fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
Upton SinclairIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton SinclairTurn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
Upton SinclairJournalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.
Upton Sinclair