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"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."
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"To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong."
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"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
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"Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."
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"I'll rail against what I think is wrong."
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"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"
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"Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again."
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"Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong."
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"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong."
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"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
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"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
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"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."
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"Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician."
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"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."
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"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
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"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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"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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"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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"I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things."
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"At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places."
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"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."
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