Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 September 1878
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
media practice america
We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
media evil honest
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?
media class journalism
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
believe media names
When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy what they call the "good-will"- that is, they buy you. And they proceed to change your whole psychology - everything that you believe about life. You might object to it, if you knew; but they do their work so subtly that you never guess what is happening to you!
depends difficult man salary understand understanding
If is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it
process good-faith
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.
firsts study ancient
The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
religion church pages
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
long may events
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.
order heaven religion
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.
men cells mind
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.
perfect body good-health
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.
mean giving way
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.
heart two justice
I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.