The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda. . . are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier. " He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.