Peter Singer Quotes

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• Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have…
• If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do…
• Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
• Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential…
• To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat…
• Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then…
• What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.
• The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how…
• Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe,…
• If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle…
• Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than…
• To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same…
• Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.
• People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about…
• I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians…
• We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers
• The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as…
• Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does…
• Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.
• In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait…

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