The Brass Check Quotes

“In every newspaper-office in America the same struggle between the business-office and the news-department is going on all the time.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

“Newspapermen are human, and cannot be blamed by their owners if now and then they yield to the temptation to publish the news.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

“In England where the radicals were allowed to gather in Hyde Park and say what they chose, crimes of political violence were practically unknown. On the other hand, in America, where it was customary for the police to arrest radicals and club and jail them, such crimes were common.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

“Love of children--ah, yes, all scandal-bureaus know what that means!”
― Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

“In any competitive society, woman is necessarily condemned to a position of inferiority by the burdens of maternity.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism (Classic Reprint) by Upton Sinclair

“Mark Twain, I believe, is author of the saying that a lie can run all the way round the earth while the truth is putting on its”
― Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

“We have a flabby public opinion which would wring its hands in anguish if we took the labor leader by the scruff of his neck, backed him up against a wall, and filled him with lead. Countries which consider themselves every bit as civilized as we do not hesitate about such matters for a moment. Whenever”
― Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

“The American people thoroughly despise and hate their newspapers; yet they seem to have no idea what to do about it, and take it for granted that they must go on reading falsehoods for the balance of their days!”
― Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism

“Now I ask you: could any muck-raker in a rage make up a list of titles more completely expressive of vulgarity, commercialism and general “bunk” than the above real ones? I”
― Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism