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
jesus believe school
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 finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.
credit slavery modern
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
giving-up battle devil
But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
understanding salary depends
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
perfect feelings fasting
Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
competition tests facts
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
twilight vision american-cities
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
use squealing hog
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
able sun captains-of-industry
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.
dad newspapers
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
sky littles rooms
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 of the sky.
organization three married
I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
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.
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.