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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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