“Climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occurred in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“We have no obligation to assist countries whose governments have policies that will undermine the effectiveness of our aid.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Helping is not, as conventionally thought, a charitable act that is praiseworthy to do but not wrong to omit. It is something… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“We have an obligation to help those in absolute poverty that is no less strong than our obligation to rescue a drowning… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The world does produce enough to feed its inhabitants – in fact we waste vast quantities of grain and soybeans by feeding them… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“I argued against the view that the only obligation we have to strangers is to avoid harming them; but even if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“What we are doing to strangers in other communities right now is, therefore, far more serious and far more widespread than the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came… — Peter Singer Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the… — Peter Singer Copy Share
The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information,… — Peter Singer Copy Share
Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter… — Peter Singer Copy Share
“The unchallenged assumption is that humans may use animals for their own purposes, and they may raise and kill them to satisfy their preference… — Peter Singer Copy Share
Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance… — Peter Singer Copy Share
“Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.” — Peter Singer Copy Share
Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of… — Peter Singer Copy Share
“Dairy farmers routinely remove calves from their mothers at an early age so that the milk will be available for humans; anyone who has… — Peter Singer Copy Share
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are… — Peter Singer Copy Share
“A consequence of this alienation of humans from their own nature is that they are also alienated from each other. Productive activity becomes ‘activity… — Peter Singer Copy Share
“I argued against the view that the only obligation we have to strangers is to avoid harming them; but even if we were to… — Peter Singer Copy Share
I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou… — Peter Singer Copy Share
It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products… — Peter Singer Copy Share
