Who said “It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to…”?

“The fatal futility of Fact.”

“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”

“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”

“There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.”

“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”

“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.”

“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.”

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests”