بالكذب يُلقي الإنسانُ بكرامته كإنسان، بل يُفنيها كأنما. والذي لا يصدّق ما يقوله لغيره... يغدو أحطّ قدرًا من الشيء الجامد. إنه يجعل من نفسه مظهرًا خادعًا للإنسان، لا إنسانًا حقيقيًا.

“By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.”Immanuel Kant — Doctrine of Virtue