Arthur Koestler Quotes
We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.
Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon. Translated by Daphne Hardy, Macmillan, 1941, p. 82.
Manava Dharma Shastra. The punishment for male adultery was not capital as in the Ancient Jewish and early Christian and Muslim law (Sharia) even today. However, if the adulterer had relations with the wife of a higher cast man, then the punishment was death. Even intercourse with an unmarried woman of a higher caste was punishable by death, but not so for relations with a woman of the same or lower caste. This text is a part of the Hindu Holy Texts. Hindus believe that Manu was a prophet whose text is revealed or inspired.
Arthur Koestler, CBE was a Hungarian British author, journalist and jewish intellectual. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany, but he resigned in 1938 because Stalinism disillusioned him.
