"Between truth and falsehood, between good and bad, there is no graduality," he said.
But is Double Falsehood a good play?
"It is true the papers were false, but the scriptures allow the righteous to adopt falsehood to do good".
The book goes on to quote one of Martin Luther King's favourite hymns: "Once to Every Man and Nation, comes the moment to decide, / In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
Still, seeing a campaign for president propelled to victory on so many outright falsehoods cannot be good for the republic.
"Leaks, half-truths and outright falsehoods about a good man with an exceptional record of public service are not a substitute for admissible evidence".
Miss Glick's employment of falsehoods to slander a good man was shameful enough, but the Jerusalem Post's decision to print an editorial that spits upon Israel's sons and daughters in uniform and then reverse its decision to provide others the opportunity to defend the very same is where the real shame lies.
He was promptly brought up on charges of "drunkenness", "scandalous conduct tending to the destruction of good morals", and "falsehood" and taken to the Wisconsin for his court martial.
From the outset, Socrates treats the poems (those by Hesiod and Homer are singled out, but the critique isn't meant to be confined to them) as though they contained not just falsehoods, but falsehoods held up as models of good behavior.
He wrote, "For atheists, every religious service is predicated on a falsehood, regardless of whatever feel-good niceties may accompany its production".
