What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned. - Claud Cockburn

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Claud Cockburn: "What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned."

Claud Cockburn's Quotations

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Arouses	Behave	Conspire	Even
Fact	Honest	Idiotically	Impose
Indignation	Influence	People	Picture
Positions	Power	Prig	Public
Sagacious	Satirist	Successfully	Themselves
Unless	Upon	Very	Wellintentioned
Wickedly

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