Upton Sinclair Quotes

Upton Sinclair became famous for his novel, "The Jungle," but this book wasn't the only novel with which Sinclair attempt to bring about social change. He once said, "My Cause is the Cause of a man who has never yet been defeated, and whose whole being is one all devouring, God-given holy purpose." Here are quotes from Upton Sinclair.

• "Fascism is capitalism plus murder."
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• "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
  - Upton Sinclair, "The Jungle"
  
  
• "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
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• ""Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?"
  - Upton Sinclair, "Profits of Religion"
  
  
• "You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since."
  - Upton Sinclair
  
  
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