“To explain our conventional ethical attitudes, is not to justify them.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't… — 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
When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but… — 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
