January 20, 2005

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  Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.  Whoever reflects on these matters can only be surprised by how little attention has been paid, in our tradition of philosophical and political thought, to their significance, on the one hand for the nature of action and, on the other, for the nature of our ability to deny in thought and word whatever happens to be the case.
  
  Hannah Arendt
      --Lying in Politics

  
  

  
   

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