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Since 1988, Iran has had a government-funded, regulated system for purchasing kidneys. — Peter Singer

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. — Peter Singer

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering. — Peter Singer

If we could see our lives objectively, we could see that they are not something we should inflict on anyone. — Peter Singer

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could. — Peter Singer

The future of the world depends on how well we meet it. — Peter Singer

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives. — Peter Singer

I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human. — Peter Singer

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning ... — Peter Singer

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers — Peter Singer

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. — Peter Singer

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. — Peter Singer

I couldn't care less about politics, the culture wars. My only interest is to get people to care about Darfurs and Rwandas. — Peter Singer

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans. — Peter Singer

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will. — Peter Singer

But pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being — Peter Singer

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism. — Peter Singer

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. — Peter Singer

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings ... — Peter Singer

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles. — Peter Singer

I'm not a French singer. — Peter O'Toole

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary. — Peter Tosh

To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid. — Peter Singer

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too. — Peter Singer

If we can prevent something bad, without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it. — Peter Singer

Why [..] should the boundary of sacrosanct life match the boundary of our species? — Peter Singer

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

The world would be a much simpler place if one could bring about social change merely by making a logically consistent moral argument. — Peter Singer

Everyday we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements. — Peter Singer

Target groups you care about that other people mostly don't, and take advantage of strategies other people are biased against using. — 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. — Peter Singer

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things. — Peter Singer

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. — Peter Singer

Should thousands of animals suffer so that a new kind of lipstick or floor wax can be put on the market? — Peter Singer

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 — Peter Singer

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. — Peter Singer

Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government. — Peter Singer

Moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong. — Peter Singer

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all. — Peter Singer

If doing the most you can for others means that you are also flourishing, then that is the best possible outcome for everyone. — Peter Singer

Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application. — Peter Singer

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go. — Peter Singer

In the United States, 97 percent of those classified by the Census Bureau as poor own a color TV. — Peter Singer

Yes, I am a good singer. — Peter Tork

We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves. — Peter Singer

It is in the rightness of our cause, and not the fear of our bombs, that our prospects of victory lie. — Peter Singer

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people. — Peter Singer

We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans. — Peter Singer

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human. — Peter Singer

There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine. — Peter Singer

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

Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong. — Peter Singer

Words do have consequences, and what one generation says but does not really believe, the next generation may believe, and even act upon. — Peter Singer

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. — Peter Singer

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish. — Peter Singer

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings. — Peter Singer

There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head. — Peter Singer

Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment. — Peter Singer

Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change. — Peter Singer

Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion. — Peter Singer

If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money. — Peter Singer

Cutting out meat would do more to help combat climate change than any other action we could feasibly take in the next 20 years. — Peter Singer

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact. — Peter Singer

Being a bystander to suffering is not an option. — Peter Singer

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. — Peter Singer

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. — Peter Singer

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. — Peter Singer

To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays. — Peter Singer

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper. — Peter Singer

At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using. — Peter Singer

Putting yourself in the place of others ... is what thinking ethically is all about. — Peter Singer

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. — Peter Singer

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions. — Peter Singer

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics. — Peter Singer

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact — Peter Singer

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. — Peter Singer

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. — Peter Singer

The big corporations and those who must compete with them are not concerned with a sense of harmony among plants, animals, and nature. — Peter Singer

If our holding certain values had no effect at all on what we chose to do, values would lose all their importance. Now — Peter Singer

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. — Peter Singer

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals. — Peter Singer

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. — Peter Singer

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. — Peter Singer

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group. — Peter Singer

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. — Peter Singer

Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating. — Peter Singer

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. — Peter Singer

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable. — Peter Singer

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. — Peter Singer

Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. — Peter Singer

Ethics is inescapable. — Peter Singer

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality. — Peter Singer

Worldwide, the poor leave a very small carbon footprint, but they will suffer the most from climate change. — Peter Singer

So it is worse to slap a baby than a horse, if both slaps are administered with equal force. — Peter Singer

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt. — Peter Singer

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics. — Peter Singer

In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals). — Peter Singer

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009. — Peter Singer