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Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6) QUOTES

Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6) QUOTES

1 " monuments out of millions of human skulls? "

― Upton Sinclair , Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6)

2 " the fate of dictators to have to listen to flattery and to grow more susceptible to it. There are few who dare to say No in their presence, and it becomes less and less tolerable to them to hear that presumptuous word. "

― Upton Sinclair , Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6)

3 " like? What does he eat? What does he wear? Does he shout at you as he does over the radio? Is it true that his German is bad? And above all: What does he want, and will he really be satisfied when he’s got it? How can anybody be sure he’ll be satisfied? How can anybody take his word for anything? Lanny had to be on the alert to meet such a barrage. Adi wanted him to say that he craved the friendship of England; so Lanny said it, again and again. “But on what terms?” the guests would ask. “His terms, or ours?” Lanny had to say: “I am afraid it will be on his.” So then: “What "

― Upton Sinclair , Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6)

4 " Hitlerites are blood and soil worshipers, human sacrifice mystics out of the dark forests of Germany before the dawn of civilization. "

― Upton Sinclair , Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6)

5 " Once Hitler announces his decision, they all fall into line, like so many humble rookies. The reason for that is, not so much that they trust Hitler—many of them privately think he’s a bit cracked—but they know he’s managed to get the German people behind him. That is the basis of his power—that, and his luck; he’s managed to get away with one thing after another, and of course every concession by the rest of the world increases that prestige, makes him bolder and his people more adoring.” Said F.D.R.: “I have the feeling that we are drifting into a frightful calamity. "

― Upton Sinclair , Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6)

6 " Congress is balking; in fact, they have got to the point where they won’t do anything if they think it’s what I want. "

― Upton Sinclair , Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6)

7 " simon-pure American Nationalism, America First, America for Americans, and let us "

― Upton Sinclair , Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6)

8 " We have very few Congressmen and Senators who represent the public,” was the reply. “Most of them represent the interests which put up their campaign funds last time and are expected to do it next time. "

― Upton Sinclair , Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6)

9 " These refugees from a score of lands, including the sweet land of liberty overseas, talked politics and war incessantly, but when you listened you discovered that what they were thinking about was their own comfort, the preservation of the system which made their own lives so easy. What was going to happen to the “market”?—by which they meant the stocks and bonds from which their incomes were derived. If "

― Upton Sinclair , Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6)

10 " some devil was engaged in making a caricature of the democratic process, reducing it to a farce, to prove that the people were incapable of thinking and must really have a master "

― Upton Sinclair , Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6)

11 " One man decides, and the rest obey. "

― Upton Sinclair , Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels Book 6)