politics-1307

Submitted by Syscrusher on Mon, 2006/09/11 - 09:41.
Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting 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 will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
—  Samuel Langhorn Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Chronicle of Young Satan
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