Aberration Quote by Jean Lorrain

“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“They could tell the whole hateful story of it, set forth in the inner soul of a city in which honor and justice, women's…

— Upton Sinclair

“Many novelists fumed at men they saw as jailers. A host of masculine villains paraded through their plots—neglectful fathers, cruel husbands, and assorted gamblers,…

— Mike Wallace

“And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysis,…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“A sincere person owes it to themselves to expose the frightful barbarity which still prevails in the hidden depths of a society so outwardly…

— Élisée Reclus

“When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims, then money becomes its creators' avenger.…

— Ayn Rand

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

— Marina Warner

“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and…

— Azar Nafisi

“By time-honored esthetic and moral standards the knowing modern man, and woman, is a barely polite gangster; his machine-gun is his mind, ideas his…

— Seymour Krim

“The rich never give you anything (dixit A.). Wealth is unrelenting; it always screws you. Those who are rich in intelligence, power and beauty…

— Jean Baudrillard

“If there is one lesson we can take away from the extravagant lives of our tyrants it is the fragility of our democratic society…

— Daniel Myerson