As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life.
And they tend to be the only lies that good people tell while imagining that they are being good in the process..
He focuses on white lies--those lies we tell for the purpose of sparing people discomfort--for these are the lies that most often tempt us.
In Lying , best-selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie.
Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption--even murder and genocide--generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie.
Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies.
As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life
