Upton Sinclair Quotes
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. 
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair
[Chophouse. It was his descriptions of meat, though, that most concerned Americans. Even President Theodore Roosevelt seemed to be more shocked by the details of how cattle and hogs were being sliced into beef and pork--and by how much condemned meat was ending up on American dinner tables--than by the workers' plight. Within a matter of months, Sinclair's book became an international bestseller and sparked legislation regulating the meat industry for the first time.] I aimed for the public's heart, ... and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
- Upton Sinclair