Animal Quotes by 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

At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.

— Peter Singer

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

— 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

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

— 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

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…

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“Until we boycott meat, and all other products of animal factories, we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence,…

— Peter Singer

There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be…

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When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in…

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By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed,…

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Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can…

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...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this…

— 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. I…

— Peter Singer

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting…

— Peter Singer

We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere…

— Peter Singer

Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable…

— Peter Singer

Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the…

— Peter Singer

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

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

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

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

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

— 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

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

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

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

— 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

If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in…

— Peter Singer

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to…

— Peter Singer