Peter Singer Quotes
Top 96 wise famous quotes and sayings by Peter Singer
Peter Singer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.
If we could see our lives objectively, we could see that they are not something we should inflict on anyone.
I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.
But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.
Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning ...
If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.
I couldn't care less about politics, the culture wars. My only interest is to get people to care about Darfurs and Rwandas.
Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.
But pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings ...
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.
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.
Should thousands of animals suffer so that a new kind of lipstick or floor wax can be put on the market?
The world would be a much simpler place if one could bring about social change merely by making a logically consistent moral argument.
If we can prevent something bad, without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it.
Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
When we eat plants, food takes on a different quality. We take from the earth food that is ready for us and does not fight against us as we take it.
There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.
Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.
If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.
Why should people be dying from an invariably fatal disease while a potential cure is tested on animals who do not normally develop AIDS anyway? The
Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
Target groups you care about that other people mostly don't, and take advantage of strategies other people are biased against using.
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
Words do have consequences, and what one generation says but does not really believe, the next generation may believe, and even act upon.
Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.
It is in the rightness of our cause, and not the fear of our bombs, that our prospects of victory lie.
If doing the most you can for others means that you are also flourishing, then that is the best possible outcome for everyone.
The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.
Moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.
There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.
Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.
Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.
Cutting out meat would do more to help combat climate change than any other action we could feasibly take in the next 20 years.
If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.
Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.
At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
Faith cannot tell us who is right and who is wrong, because each will simply assert that his or her faith is the true one.
If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of the tap, you have money to spend on things you don't really need.
Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
The big corporations and those who must compete with them are not concerned with a sense of harmony among plants, animals, and nature.
If our holding certain values had no effect at all on what we chose to do, values would lose all their importance. Now
Worldwide, the poor leave a very small carbon footprint, but they will suffer the most from climate change.
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.