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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.

— Upton Sinclair The Profits of Religion (1918)

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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.

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

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.

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