I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.
You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
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