“Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Dairy farmers routinely remove calves from their mothers at an early age so that the milk will be available for humans; anyone… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“I argued against the view that the only obligation we have to strangers is to avoid harming them; but even if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The world does produce enough to feed its inhabitants – in fact we waste vast quantities of grain and soybeans by feeding them… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“In fact, the Nazis did not have a euthanasia program, in the proper sense of the word. Their so-called euthanasia program was… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships… — 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
“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
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
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
“We have no obligation to assist countries whose governments have policies that will undermine the effectiveness of our aid.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It's because I work in ethics, and, more specifically, applied ethics, that I think it's important that if you have things to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“To argue against abortion on the grounds that it prevents beings of high intrinsic value coming into the world is implicitly to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“What we are doing to strangers in other communities right now is, therefore, far more serious and far more widespread than the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occurred in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“To explain our conventional ethical attitudes, is not to justify them.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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