Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. — 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
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
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
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist. — 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
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
If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life,… — 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
History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port… — 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
It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,… — 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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