Daniel Defoe Quotes
'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
Defoe, Daniel. The Political History of the Devil. London: T. Warner, 1726.
To her view evil was not a great force to be contended with and defeated, but it emanates from the accumulation little things that people do and do not do within a culture. There is no devil or anti-Christ. There is just all of us.
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts and was often in trouble with the authorities, and spent a period in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted with him.
