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Trials Quotes - Page 9

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

Rex Stout (2013). “Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men”, Bantam

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, Courier Corporation

That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things.

"Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.