Peter Singer

Ethics is inescapable.

— Peter Singer

“To explain our conventional ethical attitudes, is not to justify them.”

— Peter Singer

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.

— Peter Singer

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

— Peter Singer

The future of the world depends on how well we meet it.

— Peter Singer

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

— Peter Singer

Every day we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements.

— Peter Singer

“Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application.”

— Peter Singer

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

— Peter Singer

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

If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type…

— Peter Singer

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

— Peter Singer

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

— Peter Singer

Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.

— Peter Singer

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

— Peter Singer

“Helping is not, as conventionally thought, a charitable act that is praiseworthy to do but not wrong to omit. It is something…

— Peter Singer

“It takes twenty-one pounds of protein fed to a calf to produce a single pound of animal protein for humans. We get…

— Peter Singer

The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…

— Peter Singer

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

...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this…

— Peter Singer

Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it…

— Peter Singer

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

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone…

— Peter Singer

Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of…

— Peter Singer

If somebody has an extreme amount of wealth and is not using it for some good purpose, only for their own enjoyment…

— Peter Singer

Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can…

— Peter Singer

“A consequence of this alienation of humans from their own nature is that they are also alienated from each other. Productive activity…

— Peter Singer

“Arguments for preservation based on the beauty of wilderness are sometimes treated as if they were of little weight because they are…

— Peter Singer

“We spend most of our lives with unfulfilled desires, and the occasional satisfactions that are all most of us can achieve are…

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“What we are doing to strangers in other communities right now is, therefore, far more serious and far more widespread than the…

— Peter Singer

Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…

— Peter Singer

“To argue against abortion on the grounds that it prevents beings of high intrinsic value coming into the world is implicitly to…

— Peter Singer

If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that…

— Peter Singer

If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.

— Peter Singer

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

— Peter Singer

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

— Peter Singer

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

— Peter Singer

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

— Peter Singer

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

— Peter Singer

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

— Peter Singer