“All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. The Duke of Alba* is dashing about, losing battles left and right, and talking about how horrible the enemy is. And his troops and his government are getting very, very upset. And his king is getting more and more discouraged and so forth.
“Then one day, the fatal shaft of truth cuts through this whole chaos: he’s been in the enemy pay all the time. Immediately everything sets back to rights again and the troop morale comes back and they go and they defeat the enemy and the king… That’s how it works out at the end. Well, that’s a dramatic incident with regard to truth.
“But all truth, whether dramatic or simple, has the same effect. Don’t ever try to stop truth. It’s the only thing that can go through sixteen-inch armor plate.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
*Duke of Alba: Fernando Alvarez de Toledo (1507-1582), Spanish general known for his cruelty.
Excerpted from the lecture Scientology Zero (Continued) delivered on 10 December 1963. This can be found in the PTS/SP Course lectures. Track 2.
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