Quote by Peter Singer
In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions. – Peter Singer

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You might hold an ethical position that its wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons – to reduce casualties, perhaps – and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a good outcome. – Peter Singer

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War
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Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense hes a universalist. – Peter Singer

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Freedom
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What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. – Peter Singer

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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. – Will Rogers

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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. – Adrian Cronauer

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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. – Harold MacMillan

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. – Paul Klee

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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. – Michel de Montaigne

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When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but thats not it. Its a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome. – Mindy Kaling

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I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star. But Im not going to worry about them. Im dreaming the hardest. – Marilyn Monroe

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