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Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here

  • Anatoly Rannevhas quoted5 years ago
    It was as recently as 1935 that she had taken up purifying the films, and before that she had first advocated and then fought Prohibition. She had also (since the vote had been forced on her) been a Rep
  • Coffeehas quoted2 days ago
    that the Prang who so often crooned about the Humility and Modesty of the Saviour wanted was for one hundred and thirty million people to obey him, their Priest-King, implicitly in everything concerning their private morals, their public asseverations, how they might earn their livings, and what relationships they might have to other wage-earners.

    "And that," Doremus Jessup grumbled, relishing the shocked piety of his wife Emma, "makes Brother Prang a worse tyrant than Caligula—a worse Fascist than Napoleon.
  • Coffeehas quoted2 days ago
    All that the Prang who so often crooned about the Humility and Modesty of the Saviour wanted was for one hundred and thirty million people to obey him, their Priest-King, implicitly in everything concerning their private morals, their public asseverations, how they might earn their livings, and what relationships they might have to other wage-earners.
  • Coffeehas quoted18 days ago
    Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism!
  • Coffeehas quoted18 days ago
    'Now you boys never mind about the moral side of this. We have power, and power is its own excuse!'
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