Peter Singer Quotes

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• Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in…
• If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.
• My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal…
• Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.
• Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.
• Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.
• Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments provide…
• If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of…
• For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important…
• To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
• More people with HIV/Aids are getting inexpensive anti-retroviral drugs, and their life expectancy has increased, but universal access is still far off, and the disease…
• When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people…
• The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more…
• There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive…
• Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while…
• When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Centre, a community hospital that was holding more than 200…
• Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles,…
• If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide…
• In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness…
• In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths…

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