Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he... Life - Página 141924Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| David Starr Jordan - 1922 - 864 páginas
...lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of these; and he will by and by convince himself that the war is...enjoys after this process of grotesque selfdeception." 18993 Salvation of South Africa then his colleagues, later his friends and even his family fall away,... | |
| Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 360 páginas
...diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutation of them ; and thus he will bye and bye convince himself that the war is just, and will thank...enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN [1896] From "Problems of a Modern Democracy." f Nothing is more necessary to... | |
| Edith M. Phelps - 1927 - 206 páginas
...will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutation of them; and thus he will bye and bye convince himself that the war is just, and will thank...enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. — "Satan" speaking of the affect of an aggressive war on liberty of opinion. FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1968 - 64 páginas
...consciencesoothing falsities and will diligently study them, and refuse .to examine any refutations of them, and thus he will by and by convince himself that the...enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." Our own Mark Twain recorded these thoughts. (Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, 1898.) These have... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations - 1968 - 58 páginas
...consciencesoothing falsities and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them, and thus he will by and by convince himself that the...enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." Our own Mark Twain recorded these thoughts. (Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, 1898.) These have... | |
| Louis J. Budd - 1999 - 674 páginas
...them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that war is just and will thank God for the better sleep...enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. In the end Satan tells the boys that he himself does not exist; that he is a dream of man; that God,... | |
| Harold I. Saperstein - 2001 - 394 páginas
...conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the...better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.2 Only a miracle must save us from the course that warning pictures. That miracle must... | |
| Tariq Ali - 2004 - 276 páginas
...conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the...enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.' (Germany, France, Belgium) opposed the war before it took place nullify the criteria. The contrast... | |
| Mark Twain - 2009 - 404 páginas
...consciencesoothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the...better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self -deception." X. Days and days went by now, and no Satan. It was dull without him. But the astrologer,... | |
| Hal von Luebbert - 2006 - 318 páginas
...nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities . . . , and thus he will by and by convince himself that the...enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." It doesn't matter that the war is declared or undeclared, or that it is the "cops and robbers" war... | |
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