"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

"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

"It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions

"political opinions were an arsenal of weapons from which he picked up those which served his need at a certain moment of conflict. When conscientious," Upton Sinclair

"Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers." Upton Sinclair

"The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie." Upton Sinclair

"One could not stand and watch very long without being philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal of the universe.... Each of them had an individuality

"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

"proceeded to clear a way to the hall. Once" 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

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

"The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down." Upton Sinclair

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder." Upton Sinclair

"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