When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa…

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.”

— Peter Singer

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

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