Top 11 Muckraker Quotes
#1. The great muckraker Upton Sinclair had expressed a deep insight into the relationship between the world of ideas and the world of practical men: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'34
John Kay
#2. What, then, was the difference between America and Moscow? The "muckraker" said it was a question of who owned the state. In America the people were supposed to own it, but most of the time the big businessmen bought it away from them. "It is privilege which corrupts politics," was his phrase.
Upton Sinclair
#3. This is the time to remember that I'm the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.
Maya Van Wagenen
#4. Almost all instruction seems to revolve around language ac-(Jermaine spelling now) "q, a-kwi-si-tion acquisition!" ("What that?" I ask. "You know, to get. Language acquisition, to get some language.")
Sapphire.
#5. It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#6. It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
Graham Greene
#7. Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.
John Waters
#8. No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
Bertrand Russell
#9. The trouble with life is, we never know when we are in the zone, until we think back, with jealous longing, years later.
Robert Black
#11. The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.
Jim Rohn
