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Lying in Politics: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception, and the Psychology of Defactualization

Source: Brain Pickings

“No matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough … to cover the immensity of factuality.”

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