The Lanny Budd Novels Volume One Quotes

“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, The Lanny Budd Novels Volume One: World's End, Between Two Worlds, and Dragon's Teeth

“solemnly ordain: “There shall be no reprisals.” That was the pattern of this new society, as Lanny came to know it; boundless cruelty combined with bland and pious lying. The Fascisti would develop falsehood into a new science and a new art; they would teach it to one dictator after another, until half the human race would no longer have any means of telling truth from falsehood.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Lanny Budd Novels Volume One: World's End, Between Two Worlds, and Dragon's Teeth

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― Upton Sinclair, The Lanny Budd Novels Volume One: World's End, Between Two Worlds, and Dragon's Teeth

“I looked behind me; gross darkness pressed upon our rear, and came rolling over the land after us like a torrent. We had scarce sat down, when darkness overspread us, not like that of a moonless or cloudy night, but of a room when it is shut up, and the lamp put out. You could hear the shrieks of women, the crying of children, and the shouts of men; some were seeking their children, others their parents, others their wives or husbands, and only distinguishing them by their voices; one lamenting his own fate, another that of his family; some praying to die, from the very fear of dying; many lifting their hands to the gods; but the great part imagining that there were no gods left anywhere, and that the last and eternal night was come upon the world.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Lanny Budd Novels Volume One: World's End, Between Two Worlds, and Dragon's Teeth

“Not an altogether satisfactory way of life, but the only one possible in times when the world is changing so fast that parents and children may be a thousand years apart in their ideas and ideals.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Lanny Budd Novels Volume One: World's End, Between Two Worlds, and Dragon's Teeth

“Of course it was terrible that men went to war and killed one another; but for that you had to blame nature, not the Budd family.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Lanny Budd Novels Volume One: World's End, Between Two Worlds, and Dragon's Teeth

“was one of the fixed laws of the universe that Americans could beat Europeans at anything, once they put their minds to it.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Lanny Budd Novels Volume One: World's End, Between Two Worlds, and Dragon's Teeth