Fact Crime Book

Famous quotes containing the words fact, crime and/or book:

    “What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.”
    —Claud Cockburn (1904–1981)

    “Thy Godlike crime was to be kind,
    To render with thy precepts less
    The sum of human wretchedness,
    And strengthen Man with his own mind;”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)