Lynn Derks

“It was the same type of men all over the world. They tried to grab on another's coal and steel and oil and gold; yet, the moment they were threatened by their wage slaves anywhere, they got together to fight against the common peril. Do it with the army, do it with gangsters, do it with the workers' own leaders, buying them or seducing them with titles, honors, and applause!”
― Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth I

“That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.”
― H.L. Davis, Honey in the Horn

“Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice can carry -- that was Adolf Hitler's technique. No matter whether it was true or not -- for (Hitler) meant literally his maxim that the bigger the falsehood, the easier to get it believed; people would say you wouldn't dare make up a thing like that. Imagine the worst possible about your enemies and then swear that you knew it, you had seed it, it was God's truth and you were ready to stake your life upon it -- shout this, bellow this, over and over, day after day, night after night...when ten million join in it becomes history.”
― Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth I

“But only in mad people fear goes on constant night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November