
Full Employment in a Free Society (1944) Pt. 7
No. 30 (November 11, 1758)
The Idler (1758–1760)
Full Employment in a Free Society (1944) Pt. 7
“The war method includes falsehood as an integral part. Truth is indeed a casualty of war.”
Must We Go to War? (1937)
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”
Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 104)
War (1816)
Context: War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
"Plutarch's Lives," Vol 1, Barnes & Noble Inc., 2006, Lysander p. 646
Translation from Greek originalː "τὸ ἀληθὲς οὐ φύσει τοῦ ψεύδους κρεῖττον ἡγούμενος, ἀλλ' ἑκατέρου τῇ χρείᾳ τὴν τιμὴν ὁρίζων."
The one-sentence peace message summarizing her ideas. Ch. 3 : The Pilgrimage
Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982)
“Cling to truth and it turns into falsehood. Understand falsehood and it turns into truth.”
As translated in 1,001 Pearls of Wisdom (2006) by David Ross, p. 36
Context: Cling to truth and it turns into falsehood. Understand falsehood and it turns into truth. Truth and falsehood are two sides of the same coin. Neither accept one nor reject the other.
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
Misattributed