As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Boris Pasternak, (Feb 10 1890-1960), Russian novelist, poet; His novel Doctor Zhivago helped win him the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1958 but aroused so much opposition at home that he declined the honor.