Upton Sinclair

“I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

“The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label.”

“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”

“All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.”

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

“The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.”

“We are the slaves of the things we buy.”

“The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the knowledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.”

“Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in bondage to the financial interests of the country.”

“I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.”

“Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the world is enriched by tragedies of love and devotion.”

“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.”

“Men of property have been known to jump out of airplanes, ride through blizzards, and swim freezing rivers, in order to recover possession of a sacred document which they had lost.”