Quote #29

It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the 'cooler,' and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.

More from Upton Sinclair

  1. Wherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spy…
  2. I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
  3. An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a lon…
  4. The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
  5. Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look…
  6. I never met a Socialist, or a Socialist cause, that I didn't like.
  7. When Mr. John P. Gavit, managing editor of the New York Evening Post, wrote to Mr. Melville E. Stone, general manager of the Associated Pre…
  8. What Fielding was to the eighteenth century and Dickens to the nineteenth. Sinclair is to our own. The overwhelming knowledge and passionat…

All Upton Sinclair quotes