„People can live together in society only in an atmosphere of mutual trust, where they have reason to believe that others will speak the truth; by destroying the grounds for trust and inducing mass suspicion, widespread lying becomes the harbinger signaling the fall from social solidarity to chaos.“

Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering (1984).

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