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World's End QUOTES

World's End QUOTES

1 " Military men say that troops can stand twenty percent losses; more than that, they go to pieces. But we had many an outfit with only twenty percent survivors and they went on fighting. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

2 " This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and only once; after that it would be precedent, and would determine the destinies of mankind perhaps for centuries. Each of the actors hoped to write it his way, and no living man could say what the dénouement would be. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

3 " Do not let other people invade your personality. Remember that every human being is a unique phenomenon, and worth developing. You will meet many who have no resources of their own, and who will try to fasten themselves upon you. You will find others eager to tell you what to do and think and be. But it is better to go apart and learn to be yourself. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

4 " When I invest my money in an American company, I become an American, don’t I? "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

5 " be yourself.” Great-Great-Uncle Eli "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

6 " be yourself.” Great-Great-Uncle Eli was a “transcendentalist,” having known many of the old New England group. There is something in us all, he said, that is greater than ourselves, that works through us and can be used in the making of character. The central core of life is personality. To respect the personality of others is the beginning of virtue, and to enforce respect for it is the first duty of the individual toward all forms of government, all organizations and systems which men contrive to enslave and limit their fellows. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

7 " and impatience sets traps for us, and prepares regrets that sometimes last all our lives. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

8 " wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

9 " Montesquieu had said that to love reading was to exchange hours of boredom for hours of delight; Laharpe had said that a book is a friend that never deceives. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

10 " 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 America, unless he had the backing of big money, and it was in times of crisis like this that he paid his debts. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

11 " In wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question. IV "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

12 " If you look at the people on this train, you will see that they are dressed much alike. The train itself is a standard product, and by means of it we travel from town to town selling products which are messengers of internationalism. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

13 " He learned that love is not all pleasure, but can be agony and heartache, martyrdom and sacrifice. He learned what the clergyman was talking about in the marriage service: for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

14 " Everybody agreed that the styles for that summer of 1914 were the most extreme since the Restoration, "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

15 " Lanny, climbing the hill, carried a thought which by now had become his familiar companion: Why, oh, why did men have to make their lives so ugly? What evil spell was upon them that they wrangled and scolded, hated and feared? He "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

16 " What, then, was the difference between America and Moscow? The “muckraker” said it was a question of who owned the state. In America the people were supposed to own it, but most of the time the big businessmen bought it away from them. “It is privilege which corrupts politics,” was his phrase. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

17 " Lanny smiled to himself. His chief called himself a “liberal,” and Lanny had been trying to make up his mind just what that meant. He decided that a liberal was a high-minded gentleman who believed the world was made in his own image. "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

18 " Study and think and improve your mind, and keep it clear of all this fog of hatred and propaganda "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

19 " To think that in the midst of the last desperate agony of war, with several “Big Berthas” dropping shells into the city every twenty minutes, with food scarce and fuel unobtainable, more than three thousand men and women had sat at easels and maintained their faith that art could not be destroyed, but was and would remain the supreme achievement and goal of life! Lanny "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End

20 " The French delegates now wore a cynical smile as they argued before the commissions; they had their assurance that their armies were going to hold the Rhineland and the Sarre, and that a series of buffer states were to be set up between Germany and Russia, all owing their existence to France, all financed with the savings of the French peasants, and munitioned by Zaharoff, alias Schneider-Creusot. France and Britain were going to divide Persia and Mesopotamia and Syria and make a deal for the oil and the laying of pipelines. Italy was to take the Adriatic, Japan was to take Shantung—all such matters were being settled among sensible men. Lanny "

― Upton Sinclair , World's End