Peter Singer Quotes

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• The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the…
• Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on…
• Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to…
• No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern for the animals…
• Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -…
• We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern;…
• If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.
• What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be…
• If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let…
• What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of…
• Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between…
• So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument…
• Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers.…
• One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most…
• To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.
• By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate…
• Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others,…
• Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.
• If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then…
• In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression…

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