"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

"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

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

"...Nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule—if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave. That man who had been sent to Jurgis' father

"men who understood the workers and how to fool them with glittering promises and then climb to power upon their shoulders." Upton Sinclair

"So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may be, it is easy to find people to perform it. But just as soon as

"for he seemed to have but one rule: to think of everything that ten thousand Württembergers could possibly want, and promise it to them, to be delivered on the day when they would elect the

"It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding." Upton Sinclair

"Such was the new technique for the conquest of power. Fool those who were foolable, buy those who were buyable, and kill the rest." Upton Sinclair

"Dieve--but I'm glad I'm not a hog." 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

"If I could, I would begin this book by telling you what Life is. But unfortunately I do not know what Life is. The only consolation I can find is in the fact that nobody else knows either."

"Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had

"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

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder." Upton Sinclair

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

"So he went on, tearing up all the flowers from the garden of his soul, and setting his heel upon them." Upton Sinclair

"so, then it must be that the thinkers will be forever subject to the men of brute force, and Plato’s dream of a state ruled by philosophers will remain forever vain." Upton Sinclair

"...Nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule—if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave. That man who had been sent to Jurgis' father

“One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.” Uptown Sinclair