Quote by Peter Singer
You might hold an ethical position that its wrong to lie, but if y

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

Other quotes by Peter Singer

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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I dont think nationalism is alone holding the field its in contention with a lot of different things. – Peter Singer

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alone
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Thats a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals. – Peter Singer

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Family
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. – James Madison

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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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War

Im tired. Im tired of feeling rejected by the American people. Im tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. – St. Jerome

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There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too. – Sharon Stone

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