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

— Upton Sinclair

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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.

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

The Profits of Religion (1918)

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)

What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola.

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)

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