Quotes with infamy

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• Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

  Stephen Vizinczey
  Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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• The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• distinguishing
• immediately
• sufficient
• additional
• religion
• unhappy

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