Quotation by George Steiner

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs—but a tribute nevertheless.
George Steiner (b. 1929), French–bornU.S. critic, novelist. "Marxism and the Literary Critic," Language and Silence (1967).
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