Animal Quotes by Peter Singer

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

— 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

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

— Peter Singer

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

— Peter Singer

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

— Peter Singer

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

— Peter Singer

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

— Peter Singer

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

— Peter Singer

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a…

— Peter Singer

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from…

— Peter Singer

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how…

— Peter Singer

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both…

— Peter Singer

Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration…

— Peter Singer

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I…

— Peter Singer

Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the…

— Peter Singer

There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the…

— Peter Singer

There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…

— Peter Singer

As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…

— Peter Singer

People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…

— Peter Singer

The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding…

— Peter Singer

The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies…

— Peter Singer

Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to…

— Peter Singer

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…

— Peter Singer

It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up…

— Peter Singer

Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That…

— Peter Singer

...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the…

— Peter Singer

“It is easy to take a stand about a remote issue, but speciesists, like racists, reveal their true nature when the issue…

— Peter Singer

If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port…

— Peter Singer

If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…

— Peter Singer

If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their…

— Peter Singer

Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.

— 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

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

— Peter Singer

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

— Peter Singer

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without…

— Peter Singer

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

— Peter Singer

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed…

— Peter Singer

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

— Peter Singer

Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It…

— Peter Singer

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's…

— Peter Singer