“The war method includes falsehood as an integral part. Truth is indeed a casualty of war.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
Must We Go to War? (1937)
“The great enemy of integrity is not falsehood as such but … the attractiveness of foreign truths, truths that belong to others.”
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 9
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