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"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."
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"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence."
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"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."
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"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
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"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
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"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."
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"Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it."
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"I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise."
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"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
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"Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out."
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"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away."
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"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."
People
"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."
Creativity
"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."
People
"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."
Ethics
"I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy."
Money
"I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and thin what we ought to do about it."
Ethics
"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."
Power
"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."
Exercise
"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."
Politics
"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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