Fact Crime

Famous quotes containing the words fact and/or crime:

“A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is direct and simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.”
—Chauncey Wright (1830–1875)

“Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)