The bottom line is that civil society simply cannot function without default to truth…I can’t converse with you, for instance, if I subject every sta… - Malcolm Gladwell

At three and four and five, children may not be able to follow complicated plots and subplots. But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them.

The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.

Just think about how many times you have criticized someone else, in hindsight, for their failure to spot a liar. You should have known. There were all kinds of red flags. You had doubts. Levine would say that’s the wrong way to think about the problem. The right question is: were there enough red flags to push you over the threshold of belief? If there weren’t, then by defaulting to truth you were only being human.