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Peter Singer

"I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun."

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"I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun."

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Donna Grant

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

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Donna Grant

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

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Donna Grant

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

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Donna Grant

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

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Donna Grant

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

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Donna Grant

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

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Donna Grant

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

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Donna Grant

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

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Donna Grant

"They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out."

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Donna Grant

"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

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Peter Singer
"As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest."

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Peter Singer
"The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true."

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Peter Singer
"Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values."

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Peter Singer
"We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product."

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Peter Singer
"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts."

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Peter Singer
"I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise."

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Peter Singer
"What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos."

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Peter Singer
"Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with."

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Peter Singer
"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."

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Peter Singer
"Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician."

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