Robert Hughes (1938–2012) Australian critic, historian, writer
"Modernism's Patriarch (Cezanne)", Time Magazine, June 10, 1996
Time Magazine (1996)
“It is a consolation to remember that corruption pushed beyond a certain point provides its own remedy, and that this sort of thing cannot indefinitely continue; but it is less consoling to remember another truth, to wit, that the correction of political and social evil may come in the form of irremediable catastrophe, and that the innocent, who are the greater number, would then suffer most. It is still less consoling to remember the universal human experience that when evil is redressed by the only partly conscious force of reaction, it is not succeeded by a corresponding good, but by some other new and unexpected evil.”
Source: The Cruise of the 'Nona (1925), pp. 248–9
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