William Hazlitt Quotes
Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
Hazlitt, William. Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1823, p. 28.
See {640733} for an English political leader’s similar view.
This is a very important quotation. No one likes to make moral compromises, but Mann realized that there was a necessity in a complex society—especially a republic to make compromises. Politics cannot function without compromises of all kinds moral and otherwise as different people have different views of morality and rectitude. Mann observed that if compromises must be made, it is better for the politicians to make them than the educators, physicians, clerics, and other professional groups. Therefore politics takes the heat so that the other institutions of society do not have to. Thus politics has this crucial role among its others according to Mann.
Helms and his top executives had decided to withhold from the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination many of the material facts known to the CIA. The most dramatic was the fact that under Helms, the Central Intelligence Agency had hired organized crime figures to assassinate Fidel Castro, thus the Kennedy killing might have been a retaliation. This may seem shocking but the Central Intelligence Agency has been a problem ever since its inception. The agency frequently lied and withheld critical material of the President –see {634612}.
William Hazlitt was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature and art, his work is currently little read and mostly out of print.
