Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend
“There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is, when the garment of make-believe, by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features, is stripped off.”
Autobiography (1890) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE1/AutoB.html <br class="br">1890s
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