“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
Source: Brave New World
“Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.”
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, The Invisible Bloodbaths, p. 132
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
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