Lying is our stock-in-trade as social creatures.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.
Lying does exist in crazy forms.
Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
There's hostility to lying, and there should be.