"People think that a liar gains a victory
over his victim.
What I've learned is that a lie is
an act of self-abdication,
because one surrenders one's reality
to the person to whom one lies,
making that person one's master,
condemning oneself from then on to the sort of reality
that person's view requires to be faked...
The man who lies to the world,
is the world's slave from then on...
There are no white lies, there is only
the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all."
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
