“This is pure ends-justify-the-means logic. And the means are pushing falsehood. The notion here seems to be that Trump is helping America avoid perdition, and thus must be given leeway to lie; if we didn’t allow him to lie, the left would continue to do so, and then they’d win and drive us straight…”— Ben Shapiro, dailywire.com
“Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they’re used.”— Max Brooks, amazon.com
“Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com