Mark Twain said, "Everybody lies, every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning." In the TV series House, M.D., Dr. Greg House says “everybody lies” in almost every episode. He has also said that "It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.”
Lying is bad because it can do harm. Saint Augustine taught that telling lies was always wrong, but accepted that it would be very difficult to completely refrain from lying. He believed that there were in fact occasions when lying would be the right thing to do.
Lying is bad because it can do harm. Saint Augustine taught that telling lies was always wrong, but accepted that it would be very difficult to completely refrain from lying. He believed that there were in fact occasions when lying would be the right thing to do.
