Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr, 1878 - 1968
Time Magazine cover (22 October 1934)
Born: 20 September 1878, Baltimore, Maryland
Died: 25 November 1968, Bound Brook, New Jersey
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- A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief. permalink
Upton Sinclair - Mammonart - an Essay in Economic Interpretation (1925) - All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. permalink
Upton Sinclair - "Who Owns the Artists?" in Mammonart - an Essay in Economic Interpretation (1925) - American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same in France; but in all these three countries the dominating fact is that whatever the people get ready to change the government, they can change it. permalink
Upton Sinclair - Letter to John Reed (22 October 1918) - 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. permalink
Upton Sinclair - 100%: the Story of a Patriot (1920) - Fascism is capitalism plus murder. permalink
Upton Sinclair - Presidential Agent II (1944) - For the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars. permalink
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle (1906) - 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. permalink
Upton Sinclair - Dragon's Teeth (1942) - I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. permalink
Upton Sinclair - I have lived in Germany and know its language and literature, and the spirit and ideals of its rulers. Having given many years to a study of American capitalism, I am not blind to the defects of my own country; but, in spite of these defects, I assert that the difference between the ruling class of Germany and that of America is the difference between the seventeenth century and the twentieth. permalink
Upton Sinclair - Letter resigning from the Socialist Party (September 1917) - I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision. permalink
Upton Sinclair - Interview in The New York Times (7 September 1962) - I'm going to stop squandering money for things I don't want. I'm going to stop accepting invitations, and meeting people I don't like and don't want to know. permalink
Upton Sinclair - Metropolis (1908) - 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. permalink
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle (1906) - It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! permalink
Upton Sinclair - I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935) - It was the incarnation of blind insensenate Greed. It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs: it was the Great Butcher — it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh. permalink
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle (1906) - Journalism 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. permalink
Upton Sinclair - The Brass Check (1919)
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