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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
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
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 ...
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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
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.
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If we can prevent something bad, without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it.
— Peter Singer
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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.
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Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.
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At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.
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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.
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I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
— Peter Singer
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.
— 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
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
Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
— Peter Singer
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
— Peter Singer
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.
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Ethics is inescapable.
— 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.
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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.
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