Upton Sinclair

More from Upton Sinclair

• I intend to do what little one man can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by your menaces.

  Letter to the Louis D. Oaks, Los Angeles Chief of Police (17 May 1923)

  • Courage
  • Morality

• Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!

  Love’s Pilgrimage (1911)

  • Freedom
  • Love

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

  Mammonart—an Essay in Economic Interpretation Ch. 2 Who Owns the Artists? (1925)

  • Art

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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