Sam Harris

Lying

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  • 洪一萍has quoted3 years ago
    endless forms of suffering and embarrassment could be easily avoided by simply telling the truth.
  • 洪一萍has quoted3 years ago
    I came away convinced that lying, even about the smallest matters, needlessly damages personal relationships and public trust.
  • Eliezer Diazhas quoted4 years ago
    The lies of the powerful lead us to distrust governments and corporations. The lies of the weak make us callous toward the suffering of others.
  • Eliezer Diazhas quoted4 years ago
    every lie haunts our future. There is no telling when or how it might collide with reality, requiring further maintenance.
  • Eliezer Diazhas quoted4 years ago
    By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.
  • Eliezer Diazhas quoted4 years ago
    Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.
  • Eliezer Diazhas quoted4 years ago
    Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others
  • Eliezer Diazhas quoted4 years ago
    Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies.
  • Eliezer Diazhas quoted4 years ago
    The ethics of war and espionage are the ethics of emergency—and are, therefore, necessarily limited in scope.
  • Eliezer Diazhas quoted4 years ago
    Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.
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