When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
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.
If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.