Quotes from lewis sinclair ii

American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.

Gentlemen, the most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it. And the most important part of experimentation is not doing the experiment but making notes, ve-ry accurate quantitative notes -- in ink.

Your social standing isn't even in the telephone book.

She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.

Good sense from a child was not necessarily contemptible beside foolishness from a grown-up.

He still had a fragment of his boyhood belief that congressmen were persons of intelligence and importance.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me -- I actually took my teachers seriously!

In the study of the profession to which he had looked forward all his life he found irritation and vacuity as well as serene wisdom; he saw no one clear path to Truth but a thousand paths to a thousand truths far-off and doubtful.

We want our Utopia now.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

He is the only real revolutionary, the authentic scientist, because he alone knows how liddle he knows.

Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.