Upton Sinclair Quotes
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.Upton Sinclair
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
Orhan Pamuk -
I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
Adam McKay -
I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
Ice Cube -
Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
Pamela Meyer -
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
Malcolm Boyd -
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx -
That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
Irvine Welsh -
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
Yair Lapid -
I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.
Katey Sagal -
Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
Salman Rushdie -
I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
Ian Hart
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'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
Larenz Tate -
I really liked Kishore Kumar. He had a virile man's voice, and he was truly versatile.
Lata Mangeshkar -
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
Bea Arthur -
I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
Nana Visitor -
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx -
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.
Yoko Ono -
Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.
Vaclav Havel -
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
Hans Rosling -
Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
Don Herold -
I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consideration that he has for others.
Albert Einstein -
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
Upton Sinclair