Word: untruth
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...disarmament and Gandhi-like nonviolence. Hungary 1956, Jaspers makes clear, is the way Russia would have dealt with Gandhi. World government is an abstraction dear to many, but Jaspers insists that it could only be established by conquest and maintained by despotism. Harshly he calls the U.N. "a basic untruth." Its executive power depends "not on the United Nations but solely on the policies of the sovereign powers...
Finally, he proposed that a poem could even say things that were false, and still mean a great deal because "emotion brings to truth" its "structure of untruth...
Only morons would pay money for a book based on such untruth and rot. The Bible, the best seller of all time, sets forth in no uncertain terms the nature of man, and nowhere in its entirety can be found a reference to reincarnation...
...Fifth Amendment so as to protect themselves not from criminal prosecution but from social disgrace or other embarrassments. In such instances, he held, the invocation of the Fifth Amendment would be "in conscience and in law as much a perjury as if he had declared any other untruth upon his oath...
Answers Williams: "In other words-although the [Pennsylvania] Note does not pursue the analysis to this conclusion-the invocation of the amendment is what Chief Justice Marshall said was 'in conscience and in law as much a perjury as if he had declared any other untruth upon his oath...