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
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating. — 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
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. — 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
The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously… — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“We spend most of our lives with unfulfilled desires, and the occasional satisfactions that are all most of us can achieve are… — 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
“In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but… — 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
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
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 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
The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted… — 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
![“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 that they're far away? I don't think it does make a morally relevant difference.” quote by Peter Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cc1/peter-singer-1001_children_nineteen-thousand-children-are-dying-eve_33961.jpg)
