Dieve--but I'm glad I'm not a hog.
Be yourself. Great-Great-Uncle Eli
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
Polish, Lithuanian, and German—Dom.
She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.
The young people come along, and clamor so loudly for their share, and have so little idea of the pain that awaits them. One’s heart aches at the knowledge, but one cannot tell them; they have to have...
In wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question. IV
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
Proceeded to clear a way to the hall. Once
Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal and unscrupulous as...
Friendship is a delightful thing when you have had the good judgment to choose the right friends.
Forty thousand of them. It was a
National Socialism was power without conscience; you might call it the culmination of capitalism, or a degenerate form of Bolshevism—names didn’t matter, so long as you understood that it was counter-...
Wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question.
Political slogans are like grain scattered to draw birds into a snare. Find out who’s putting up the money for a political party, and then you know what it will do.
Marriage and prostitution were two sides of one shield, the predatory man's exploitation of the sex-pleasure. The difference between them was a difference of class. If a woman had money she might dict...
What they wanted from a hog was all the profits that could be got out of him; and that was what they wanted from the workingman, and also that was what they wanted from the public. What the hog though...
The evangelist was preaching sin and redemption, the infinite grace of God and His pardon for human frailty. He was very much in earnest, and he meant well, but Jurgis, as he listened, found his soul...
For when you let down the bars and admitted the right to lie and to cheat, you were undermining the very bases upon which human societies are built. Particularly when you admitted the right of politic...
In the second decade of this century of enlightenment and progress, in our free American democracy, whose constitution proclaims religious toleration, and forbids the establishment by the state of any...