Upton Sinclair

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

"The American system of ours gives each and every one of us a great opportunity."

"There is one thing that the American people always rise up and do--when they get ready."

"I am nothing in this world but a writing machine."

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."

"The great revolution in human relations will come about when we learn to include the animal in our moral concern."

"I wanted to be an author that the working people would read."

"To be able to learn is a great thing, and I'm grateful for it."

"The one thing that every man who has power, real power, wants, is immortality."

"I spent months in Chicago and studying the situation."

"All that is needed is to believe it."

"The end of capitalism will be when the masses realize what has been done in their names."

"Go ahead and multiply your talents, and improve yourself."

"When the workers of the world understand their power they'll take over the world."

"I am myself an artist, though not the best one."

"What are the sources of religion? I would say, first and foremost, they are the sources of love."

"I have had much to struggle with, but I have come through stronger."

"We have no secrets from our friends."

"The problem of poverty is that it is extraordinarily expensive to be poor."

"Civilization is what stands between us and chaos."

"I believe that all things that have life are entitled to sympathy."

"The typical American businessman is a pirate."

"To write is to fight."

"There is no greater thing in life than love."

"The ideal of freedom is the ideal of the future."

"Let the capitalists themselves withdraw their capital."

"I discovered that if one had lived a certain kind of life, one had not read the life that was being lived around one."

"Health is the crown which only the sick can see."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"In my life, I have had to choose between the love of one and the love of millions."