Oil!

by Upton Sinclair

It was the difference between a theoretical and a practical view of a question.

Life

And he knew the tragedy of life, that each generation has to make its own mistakes.

You could never be sure how much of it was acting, for he was sly as the devil, and not above using his arts on those he loved.

but they know that’s all bait for suckers, and if you could hear them laughing at you behind your back, you’d realize how you’re being used.

“Either you’ll have to change your ideas, or you’ll have a break with the girl. That’s something I’m sure about—you can’t have happiness in love unless it’s built on harmony of ideas. Otherwise you quarrel all the time—or at least, you’re bored.”

And at what stage of life shall a boy say to his father, your way of life is wrong, and you must let me take charge of it?

American big business men all purchased government, they all justified the purchase of government. It was something that had shocked Dan in the beginning, but he had come to realize now that it was a system; without the purchase of government, American big business could not exist.

The radio is a one-sided institution; you can listen, but you cannot answer back. In that lies its enormous usefulness to the capitalist system. The householder sits at home and takes what is handed to him, like an infant being fed through a tube. It is a basis upon which to build the greatest slave empire in history.