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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

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Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients. – Peter Singer

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Health
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In the sense that youre not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesnt isnt unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts. – Peter Singer

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power
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I dont understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. Its a pretty gross interference with nature. – Peter Singer

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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. – George Orwell

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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. – Harold Pinter

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What is more immoral than war? – Marquis de Sade

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You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. – Jessica Savitch

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To him who, in the love of Nature, holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language. – William Cullen Bryant

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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. – George Oppen

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Im a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative. – Betty White

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That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. – Chester W. Nimitz

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