If you wanted to understand a politician you mustn’t pay too much attention to his speeches, but find out who were his paymasters. A politician couldn’t rise in public life, in France any more than in...
Proposal was
And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests—and so perfectly...
Sinclair’s was also an age when writers, both journalists and novelists, were experiencing a thrilling sense of their own efficacy. The investigative exposé—what President Theodore Roosevelt would unf...
And now in the union Jurgis met men who explained all this mystery to him; and he learned that America differed from Russia in that its government existed under the form of a democracy. The officials...
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
They were often very turbulent meetings, with half a dozen men declaiming at once, in as many dialects of English; but the speakers were all desperately in earnest, and Jurgis was in earnest too, for...
Albumen, and made other foul-smelling things into
Truly it seemed that a great people had gone mad; but it is a fact well known to alienists that you cannot convince a madman of his own condition, and only make him madder by trying.
He seemed to be growing conservative, allying himself with Göring’s friends, the great industrialists, and forgetting the promises he had made to the common man.
The veselija has come down to them from a far-off time; and the meaning of it was that one might dwell within the cave and gaze upon shadows, provided only that once in his lifetime he could break his...
Jurgis stood upright; trembling with passion, his hands clenched and his arms upraised, his whole soul ablaze with hatred and defiance. Ten thousand curses upon them and their law! Their justice—it wa...
Everywhere I turn I see it—credulity being exploited, and men of practical judgment, watching the game and seeing through it, made hard in their attitude of materialism. How
Adolf Hitler facts had no meaning except as they served his purpose.
The man who told tales and spied upon his fellows would rise; but the man who minded his own business and did his work—why, they would speed him up till they had worn him out, and then they would thro...
Not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat—and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going. The
And impatience sets traps for us, and prepares regrets that sometimes last all our lives.
What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich?
The dark shadow of conflict was looming over the world again; but no use to say it, for people didn’t want to believe it and they knew how to believe what they chose.
Such was the new technique for the conquest of power. Fool those who were foolable, buy those who were buyable, and kill the rest.