Thursday 20 May 2010

""We shall not abolish lying by refusing to tell lies, but by using every means at hand to abolish classes" (Sartre 1989 [1948]: 218)

HUGO: I never lie to my comrades. I - Why should you fight for the liberation of men, if you think no more of them than to stuff their heads with falsehoods?

HOEDERER: I'll lie when I must, and I have contempt for noone. I wasn't the one who invented lying. It grew out of a society divided into classes, and each one of us has inherited it from birth. We shall not abolish lying by refusing to tell lies, but by using every means at hand to abolish classes.

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