Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet sup…

John Stuart Mill
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Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1864). On Liberty, p.94
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