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291. How to Combat Hedonism | Dr. Peter Kreeft

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The One Who Stops Lying Can Bring Down a Tyranny

Solzhenitsyn made much of the Gulagar Kepeligo, where each person within a totalitarian system that was willing to lie. He also said further, and I think influenced by Dostoevsky, that one man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny. And so, and then, is it St. Augustine? You would know this better than me. Well, that's the universal spiritual gravity. Whenever you touch humanity at one point, everything trembles.

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