The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Pro Life’ or ‘Right to Life’ movement is misnamed. Those who protest against abortion but dine regularly on the bodies of chickens,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I don't see how anyone could really think that if you have a choice between saving the life of one person and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I would just like to get him to think about these things; whether what's happening in Iraq is promoting the culture of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
More people with HIV/Aids are getting inexpensive anti-retroviral drugs, and their life expectancy has increased, but universal access is still far off,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Until we boycott meat, and all other products of animal factories, we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence,… — 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
