"Their frail human nature was subjected to a strain greater than it was made for; the fires of greed had been lighted in their hearts, and fanned to a white heat that melted every principle and every

"To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat- and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going." Upton Sinclair

"It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was porkmaking by machinery, porkmaking by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking

"In the second decade of this century of enlightenment and progress, in our free American democracy, whose constitution proclaims religious toleration, and forbids the establishment by the state of

"So it is that political parties degenerate; so the common people give their devotion to a cause, and discover too late how they have been betrayed." Upton Sinclair

"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

"So it is that political parties degenerate; so the common people give their devotion to a cause, and discover too late how they have been betrayed." Upton Sinclair

"The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit." Upton Sinclair

"In the second decade of this century of enlightenment and progress, in our free American democracy, whose constitution proclaims religious toleration, and forbids the establishment by the state of

"They use everything about the hog except the squeal." Upton Sinclair

"No matter whether it was true or not—for Adi meant literally his maxim that the bigger the falsehood, the easier to get it believed; people would say you wouldn’t dare make up a thing like that."

"Since this press campaign must be considered as an element of danger to the peace of the people, I have decided to carry through that strengthening of the German army which will give us the assurance

"just" Upton Sinclair

"Adolf Hitler facts had no meaning except as they served his purpose." Upton Sinclair

"and impatience sets traps for us, and prepares regrets that sometimes last all our lives." Upton Sinclair

"They had chains which they fastened about the leg of the nearest hog, and the other end of the chain they hooked into one of the rings upon the wheel. So, as the wheel turned, a hog was suddenly

"He always delivered these tirades extemporaneously and had never yet been known to read a prepared speech. The" Upton Sinclair

"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

"World War victims, depression victims, psychopaths, drug addicts, perverts, criminals—they all needed Adolf a little more than Adolf needed them, and he welded them into something more powerful than

"Reds. Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice can carry—that was Adolf Hitler’s