--- title: "14 Ethical Quotes By Peter Singer" description: "14 Ethical quotes by Peter Singer. Plus more from Peter Singer and more Ethical sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cff/peter-singer-1001_ethical_every-day-we-act-in-ways-that-reflect-ou_2764404.jpg" --- > [Every day we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/every-day-we-act-in-ways-that-reflect-our-ethical-judgements/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cff/peter-singer-1001_ethical_every-day-we-act-in-ways-that-reflect-ou_2764404.jpg) > [“To explain our conventional ethical attitudes, is not to justify them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/to-explain-our-conventional-ethical-attitudes-is-not-to-justify-them/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d91/peter-singer-1001_character_to-explain-our-conventional-ethical-atti_1290280.jpg) > [My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/my-work-is-based-on-the-assumption-that-clarity-and-consistency-in/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c39/peter-singer-1001_assumption_my-work-is-based-on-the-assumption-that_2928933.jpg) > [We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/we-should-aim-for-our-children-to-be-good-people-and-to-live-ethical/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/189/peter-singer-1001_aim_we-should-aim-for-our-children-to-be-goo_1711614.jpg) > [I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/i-would-like-us-to-think-about-it-more-explicitly-and-not-take-our/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54d/peter-singer-1001_ethical_i-would-like-us-to-think-about-it-more-e_1940370.jpg) > [Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/unfortunately-for-ethical-egoism-the-claim-that-we-will-all-be-better/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14c/peter-singer-1001_better-off_unfortunately-for-ethical-egoism-the-cla_2077917.jpg) > [When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/when-you-look-at-food-as-an-ethical-issue-in-the-christian-tradition-2/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c33/peter-singer-1001_ashamed_when-you-look-at-food-as-an-ethical-issu_3102926.jpg) > [In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/in-a-situation-where-many-national-leaders-do-the-same-thing-and-look/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0b/peter-singer-1001_ethical_in-a-situation-where-many-national-leade_2773127.jpg) > [When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/when-you-look-at-food-as-an-ethical-issue-in-the-christian-tradition/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/peter-singer-1001_about_when-you-look-at-food-as-an-ethical-issu_850415.jpg) > [Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/were-we-incapable-of-empathy-of-putting-ourselves-in-the-position-of/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26d/peter-singer-1001_blind_were-we-incapable-of-empathy-of-putting_3102371.jpg) > [At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/at-the-descriptive-level-certainly-you-would-expect-different/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82f/peter-singer-1001_different_at-the-descriptive-level-certainly-you-w_763295.jpg) > [We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/we-don-t-usually-think-of-what-we-eat-as-a-matter-of-ethics-stealing/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aff/peter-singer-1001_ancient_we-don-t-usually-think-of-what-we-eat-as_1639871.jpg) > [In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/in-the-past-20-years-alone-it-adds-up-to-more-death-than-were-caused/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f74/peter-singer-1001_add_in-the-past-20-years-alone-it-adds-up-to_2696540.jpg) > [“In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/in-an-earlier-stage-of-our-development-most-human-groups-held-to-a/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b7/peter-singer-1001_ethical_in-an-earlier-stage-of-our-development-m_458673.jpg) ## Other authors on Ethical ## More by Peter Singer > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/i-have-never-really-been-fond-of-animals-i-certainly-wasn-t-an-animal/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/knowledge-is-generally-considered-a-good-thing-so-presumably-knowing/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/the-price-we-are-willing-to-pay-for-safety-cannot-be-infinite-it-is/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/the-hope-of-internet-anarchists-was-that-repressive-governments-would/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/nineteen-thousand-children-are-dying-every-day-does-it-really-matter/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/the-unchallenged-assumption-is-that-humans-may-use-animals-for-their/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/beginning-to-reason-is-like-stepping-onto-an-escalator-that-leads/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) > [“Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/population-growth-is-not-a-reason-against-giving-aid-but-a-reason-for/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/well-the-real-concept-of-basic-needs-if-you-cut-it-right-down-are/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/dairy-farmers-routinely-remove-calves-from-their-mothers-at-an-early/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/attempts-to-defend-amusement-parks-and-circuses-on-the-grounds-that/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/a-consequence-of-this-alienation-of-humans-from-their-own-nature-is/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/i-argued-against-the-view-that-the-only-obligation-we-have-to/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/i-believe-that-in-this-new-world-that-we-live-in-we-often-have-a/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/it-may-be-thought-justifiable-to-require-tests-on-animals-of/) [Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-singer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ethical/peter-singer/#itemlist", "name": "14 Ethical Quotes By Peter Singer", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every day we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter Singer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-singer/every-day-we-act-in-ways-that-reflect-our-ethical-judgements/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cff/peter-singer-1001_ethical_every-day-we-act-in-ways-that-reflect-ou_2764404.jpg", "contentUrl": 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