" solemnly ordain: “There shall be no reprisals.” That was the pattern of this new society, as Lanny came to know it; boundless cruelty combined with bland and pious lying. The Fascisti would develop falsehood into a new science and a new art; they would teach it to one dictator after another, until half the human race would no longer have any means of telling truth from falsehood. "

― Upton Sinclair , The Lanny Budd Novels: World's End, Between Two Worlds, and Dragon's Teeth