Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but… — 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
...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their… — 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
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals). — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Capitalism is very far from a perfect system, but so far we have yet to find anything that clearly does a better… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by… — 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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