“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.