If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were… — 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
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
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make… — 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 honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not… — 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
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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