The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly." - Meaning and context.">
Chapter IV : Consciousness II, p. 78
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The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

— Charles A. Reich

What It Means

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Charles A. Reich

About Charles A. Reich

Charles Alan Reich (20 May 1928 – 15 June 2019) was an American legal and social scholar and a Professor at Yale Law School famous as the author of the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America.