Fact Crime

Famous quotes containing the words fact and/or crime:

“What is more important in a library than anything else—than everything else—is the fact that it exists.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

“The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)