We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions. — 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… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see… — 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
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life,… — 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
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
It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
More people with HIV/Aids are getting inexpensive anti-retroviral drugs, and their life expectancy has increased, but universal access is still far off,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Centre, a community hospital that was holding… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries… — 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
There's a difference between early and late abortions. If you have a late abortion, where the fetus might feel pain, then I… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot looks rather like the Star… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with… — 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
