Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individual. The moral code in the public life of a man cannot be different from the moral code in his private life; in the same manner no nation or government can have one set of moral standards for its domestic policy and diametrically opposite standards for its foreign relationship. Truth is not a matter of convenience, but it is one eternal law binding all, rich and poor, weak and strong, visible or invisible...
...force we are trying to establish peace. By deception we except to establish credit. Indulging in an ordinary butchery of the human race our politicians promise to evolve the brotherhood of man! ! All this evil has to be stopped; evil can never be remedied by evil but by truth. 'Love', says Mr. Gandhi, 'alone can conquer and the conquest of a true love is eternal and imperishable. Just as love begets love so does love beget hate.' Hence he inculcates the necessity of using 'right' weapons to remove the 'wrongs...
...great manner-subject and portrayal -in its finest passages challenging comparison with the best Elizabethan prose, and yet with an individual, mountainous strength of its own, characteristically craggy, occasionally monotonous, not easy reading-but once made one's own, a permanent enrichment to the mind. As for its truth, Colonel T. E. Lawrence* says in his preface: " It is the first and indispensable work upon the Arabs of the desert . . . here you have the desert . . . the true Arabia with its smells and dirt . . . its nobility and freedom...
...singular mixture of God and God damn; of moving truth and gaudy melodrama; of authentic dramatic intensity and (at least two examples of) incredible ill taste- such...
...must forget himself for an ideal," he continued. "Perfection is not a negative sinlessness; it does not mean solely an absence of faults, but the presence of the positive ideal of brotherhood and truth...