“The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.” MayLittlesPoliticalDifferencesReligiousTaughtDependsMethodDoctrineBeing TruePropagandaEmployedEffectivenessPerniciousTrue Or False Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948 Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.” PeopleIfsPersonsUseProblemForceAnswersNumbersClearPersonalityDependsDeterminationBeing TrueRealizationAttractiveUse Of ForceTrue To Myself Book:Voyage Across the Stars Source: Voyage Across the Stars
“If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.” IfsIdeasValuesDependsProveRelationBe GoodBeing TrueConcreteTheologicalPragmatism Book:Pragmatism Source: Pragmatism