In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
Interpretation
During conflict, genuine truths are often overshadowed by misleading narratives.
This quote by Charles Lindbergh highlights the tendency for truthful information to be manipulated or distorted in times of war. It suggests that propaganda becomes the dominant force, obscuring reality and shaping public perception in ways that serve specific agendas, often at the expense of honesty and clarity.
In practice
During a history class discussing the effects of propaganda in wartime.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.
Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.
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